Kundra earned Rs. 6-8 lakhs daily with the Hotshot, had Plan B ready if this failed - Mumbai Crime Branch
New Delhi, July 22
Mumbai Crime Branch proving mobile apps pornographic videos case found out that businessman Raj Kundra earned Rs. six to eight lakhs daily through the purported videos.
Jt CP Crime, Milind Bharambe, stated that Kundra's business grew doubly during the Covid 19 lockdown.
The investigation showed that initially he earned Rs. two to three lakhs per day with the videos on Hotshot but later it grew to Rs. six to eight lakhs per day.
Kundra had started this business only 18 my months ago around the first wave of the pandemic, police said.
The police have frozen Rs. 7.5 crores from Kundra's account so far.
Kundra forged a partnership with his UK-based brother-in-law Pradeep Bakshi's Kenrin Limited.
According to the crime branch, as Kundra couldn't upload these videos from India on an app called Hotshot, he provided the content to a foreign platform by sending videos via WeTransfer. All content was created in his office and sent to a London-based company called, Kenrin Limited, owned by his brother-in-law, Pradeep Bakshi.
Apart from the app named Hotshot, Kundra also had another backup planned incase this app got banned. It was termed as 'Plan B, Bollyfame'.
The police stated that Kundra was aware that he was violating the law as the app Hotshot was banned from Google Playstore and Apple last year.
The crime branch has recovered several WhatsApp chats that suggest Raj Kundra's Plan B Bollyfame and talks on removal of "bold" content from Hotshot.
The free to download app was called off by both Apple and Google Playstore for the type of its content.
The Mumbai Police have seized incriminating evidences like several HotShot films, video clips, WhatsApp chats, etc. during the investigation.
The police have recovered documents of financial transactions run into thousands.
The crime branch has recovered 70 videos shot by Raj Kundra's former PA Umesh Kamat with the help of different production houses.
The police have sent the server for forensic analysis to know if Kundra had used it to upload pornographic material to his UK-based shell company Kinrin.
Kundra has been receiving regular payments, amounting to Rs 9.65 lakh, in his bank account
The crime branch also added that new or aspiring actresses coming to Mumbai from all over India were lured with work offers in short films, web series and other movies. They were called for auditions and after selection made to do bold scenes, which went onto semi-nude and then full-nude shoots. Some of them strongly opposed this and had approached the police.
