Lavish Rs 1 crore Udaipur wedding was funded by Rapido driver with Rs 331 crore in account; ED traces suspicious money trail

The Enforcement Directorate unveiled a shocking case of fraud after linking a betting-linked money laundering scheme to a bank account belonging to a Rapido driver.

Officials who were initially investigating transactions linked to the 1xBEt betting network found that it led to a bike-taxi driver in Delhi. They found unexplainable amounts of deposits- Rs 331.36 crore coming into the bank account over eight months from August 19 2024, to April 16 2025.

They also found that more than 1 crore from the account was allegedly spent on a lavish wedding in Udaipur, for a bride and groom that had zero connections to the driver. The wedding was linked to a young Gujarati politician who may be summoned for questioning.

The deposit triggered suspicion and prompted the ED to raid the address belonging to the man who owned the account.

What they found was not a multimillionaire. The driver lived in a two-room apartment in a modest locality and continued to work on the roads to earn his living.

The agency suspects that the driver's account was a mule, which is a bank account operated by money laundering networks.

Multiple unidentified sources, and the funds were quickly transferred to other accounts. the ED is also verifying the entire chain of events.
The agency also brought belongings to former cricketers Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina.