vadodara city police have invoked the information technology it act besides the gambling act against the accused in the international cricket betting racket busted by enforcement directorate ed at a farmhouse on the outskirts of the city the police believe that the possibility of the betting racket running into rs 4000 crore still needs to be verified the it act was applied as offences under the gambling act are minor and even bailable the 15 accused including a minor were brought to the city in the early hours on saturday after registering an offence at kishanwadi police station they were handed over to the special operations group sog of the city police for further investigations the city police did not peg an amount on betting conducted by the accused we believe that the amount may not be so high after the preliminary questioning of one of the prime accused but it is still a matter of investigation we are still getting details from ed and can comment on the amount of betting that took place only after the probe said vadodara police commissioner e radhakrishna when asked about the possibility of the betting amount running into rs 4000 crore sog inspector h g vora said that there were several names written in codes with figures against them we are trying to identify whom these belong to he said the police are also seeking details of the 147 cellular phones found from the betting den by the ed we are also probing the possibility of the accused being financed by somebody the angadiya channels used for monetary transactions will also be probed he said the sog believes that girish alias tommy patel from unjha along with kirankumar mala and dharmendrasinh alias dharmin chauhan from ahmedabad were kingpins of the racket another accused zahir qureshi was nabbed earlier also in cricket betting box tommy in betting since adulthood if the claims of the special operations group sog of the vadodara city police are to be believed the kingpin of the betting racket girish alias tommy patel 34 had been into cricket betting since he was 18 this would imply that he has been in the business for about 16 years now officials in the sog said that he had been nabbed on four occasions in the past in connection with betting box salaried staff a virtual call centre preliminary investigations into the international cricket betting racket have revealed that the kingpins had roped in persons to work for them for a salary of rs 5000 to rs 40000 these included persons who handled phone calls made by persons placing bets to technicians who could take care of the laptops and other equipment six laptops and 147 cellular phones were seized by the enforcement directorate during the raid