The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday arrested Karnataka Congress MLA KC Veerendra Puppy, under the provisions of anti-money laundering law from Sikkim in an alleged illegal online and offline betting case.
As per ED sources, Veerendra, along with his
associates, had travelled to Gangtok via Bagdogra on a business visit to lease a land casino.
He was produced before a Judicial Magistrate in Gangtok, Sikkim, from where a transit remand was obtained for producing him before the jurisdictional court in Bangalore.