The Enforcement Directorate’s Gurugram Zonal Workplace has provisionally hooked up movable and immovable belongings price Rs 117.41 crore belonging to Probo Media Applied sciences Pvt. Ltd. and relations of the corporate’s administrators, intensifying its money-laundering probe into the prediction-market platform.
The attachment, carried out on December 9, 2025, covers fastened deposits, investments in shares, demand drafts and financial institution balances held within the firm’s identify, in addition to flats and flats registered within the names of relations of Probo’s administrators.
Probo operates the app and web site “Probo”, which the company has alleged functioned as an internet playing platform below the guise of on-line gaming. The ED’s investigation was initiated after a number of first data stories have been registered in opposition to the corporate and its administrators and promoters in Gurugram and Palwal in Haryana, and in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
The FIRs have been filed below varied sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, and the Public Playing Act, 1867. Complainants alleged they have been cheated via schemes promising earnings from easy “sure or no” questions, which, in line with investigators, in actuality promoted playing whereas being offered as skill-based gaming.
Primarily based on these FIRs, the ED opened a probe below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act, 2002. The company has mentioned its investigation revealed that Probo falsely projected itself as a skill-based gaming platform, whereas truly working a playing service that defrauded customers and generated illicit positive factors.
The prison actions linked to the scheduled offences, allegedly carried out via the corporate’s administrators and promoters, led to the era of “proceeds of crime” estimated at round Rs 1,245.64 crore.
Earlier within the case, the ED performed search operations on July 8 and July 9, 2025, at premises linked to Probo Media Applied sciences and its promoters. Throughout these searches, investments in fastened deposits and shares amounting to Rs 284.5 crore have been frozen below Part 17(1)(a) of the PMLA.
Following the promulgation of the Promotion and Regulation of On-line Gaming Act, 2025, which prohibits on-line cash gaming actions involving stakes or wagers, Probo stopped operations in August 2025.
The legislation introduced an abrupt halt to a number of real-money gaming platforms and has since shaped the backdrop for a wider enforcement push in opposition to corporations accused of operating playing operations within the guise of gaming.
The motion in opposition to Probo is a part of a broader sequence of ED investigations into on-line gaming and betting platforms after the ban. In latest months, the company has carried out searches, asset freezes and attachments throughout a number of circumstances, signalling a shift from regulatory oversight to forensic scrutiny of previous enterprise practices, fund flows and user-handling mechanisms within the sector.
The ED has mentioned additional investigation within the Probo case is below progress.