Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty is under the lens of MumbaiPolice’s Crime Branch, to probe into the porn racket case. On Friday evening, ateam of investigating officers reached Shilpa Shetty’s residence with a set ofquestions to inquire about her alleged involvement in the case.
Notably, since the arrest of her husband Raj Kundra, analleged kingpin of the porn racket, Shetty is being interrogated for the firsttime. Also, her statement is being recorded by the Crime Branch after the actorpermitted it.
According to the sources, the Crime Branch needs to knowabout Shilpa’s tenure as director of Viaan, a company owned by her husband(Kundra), that is currently under the radar of the investigating team as thealleged porn racket was being operated from its office only.
Notably, Shilpa Shetty resigned as Viaan’s director in2020. And now, the Crime Branch wants to know her reason for resigning.
Significantly, the crime branch had investigated Viaan’soffice based in Andheri West and is said to have seized a “huge data” of pornvideos.
It has been learnt, the officials have seized 20terabytes (TB) data and seven servers that were used to store it. However, around 1TB of data was already removedfrom it, and to retrieve it, the crime branch has roped in forensic experts.
After Raj Kundra was detained by the Mumbai Police onMonday, the team has started a lookout operation for the person(s) who deletedthe data from the servers.
Besides this, Shilpa Shetty’s accounts will also beassessed to see if she profiteered from the alleged racket of porn creation andpublication on applications.
Another angle that has been suggested by the sourcesinclude, whether Raj Kundra diverted money earned from the porn racket into acricket betting company.
There are reports which suggest that the investigation sofar has revealed that a huge amount was transferred to Raj Kundra's accountfrom a cricket betting company called Mercury International.
"The police are investigating whether profit earnedfrom the pornography racket was diverted in the cricket betting company by RajKundra," a source said.