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AFWA's investigation found that the video is from Kolkata, West Bengal, and not Surat.
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This video is from a raid at the residence of businessman Amir Khan in Kolkata, West Bengal. Khan allegedly defrauded people using a gaming application called E-Nuggets.
The upcoming assembly polls in Gujarat will see the Aam Aadmi Party entering the fray. Amid the AAP’s fervent campaign in the Bharatiya Janata Party bastion, a video of an Enforcement Directorate raid has been shared widely online. It supposedly shows the ED raiding a Surat-based businessman Sekhar Agarwal’s house. Agarwal, per such posts, recently defected from the Congress party to the AAP.
AFWA’s investigation found that the video is from Kolkata, West Bengal, and not Surat.
AFWA Probe
Reverse searches of the video’s frames on Google led us to the same video shared on Twitter on September 10, 2022. As per this tweet, the video was from the residence of a gaming app operator named Amir Khan in Kolkata, who was raided by the ED.
#ED recovers over Rs 40 crores amidst raids from a #Kolkata-based businessman Nesar Ahmed Khan in connection with mobile gaming app fraud. Khan’s son Amir launched an app E-Nuggets, which was designed for the purpose of defrauding public.
Counting still goin in.#WestBengal pic.twitter.com/bvJAmimYLH — KafirOphobia (@socialgreek1) September 10, 2022
Further refined searches led us to multiple news reports from outlets like NDTV and CNN News18 that carried the same video.
Per these reports, the ED recovered Rs. 17 crore from the premises of a businessman, Amir Khan (also spelt as Aamir Khan in some reports) in Garden Reach, Kolkata on September 10. According to a statement by the anti-money laundering agency, the raids were connected to a mobile gaming application called "E-Nuggets" run by the accused. The money seized was made by Khan by allegedly defrauding users of E-Nuggets.
When we searched, we couldn’t find news reports about an ED raid on the residence of Sekhar Agarwal in Surat. To get to the bottom of it, AFWA reached out to India Today’s Gujarat bureau.
Our correspondent in Surat confirmed that there was no recent raid on the residence of a businessman named Sekhar Agarwal. The correspondent also confirmed there is no prominent businessman by the name of Sekhar Agarwal defected from the Congress party to the AAP.
It is hence clear that the video in circulation is from Kolkata, and no such raid was conducted at the home of a Surat businessman called Sekhar Agarwal.
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