The Maharashtra online lottery scam runs into around three lac crore rupees , however kingpin of it Santiago martin being a darling of all political parties the scam is likely to be toned down and killed . No political party or its spokesperson has come forward to speak on this issue or at least demanded to nail the culprits.
Recently Anand kulkarni a former IAS officer exposed a massive 'online lottery scam' took place eight years back and held then Finance Minister Jayant Patil of NCP and senior IAS officer Kavita Gupta responsible .Kulkarni unearthed this scam after he obtained a copy of CID report under RTI. After a complaint regarding tender awarded to Martin lottery agencies, then Home Minister R R Patil had ordered a CID probe headed by the then Additional Director General of Police S P S Yadav into the lottery scam. Yadav had submitted its report , however, congress NCP led government didn't give heed to the report.
Though this scam runs into around three lac crores , this is not the first and the only scam of Santiago martin. He faces more than 35 lottery fraud cases in India and mostly are from Kerala. Once a small a labourer in Myanmar after coming to India entered into lottery business - mostly frauds. As his business flourished he made many of friends mostly from political parties.
According to Indian express, Martin's son Charles has joined BJP and his wife leena had managed on one occasion to get on to the then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi' s campaign stage in Coimbatore.
Here are some stories carried by Indian Express about such such scams
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