India, Nov. 1 -- Sourabh Chandrakar, the fugitive co-founder of the multi-thousand-crore Mahadev online betting syndicate, has been brought back to India from Oman, marking a breakthrough in one of the country's largest financial crime investigations. A CBI team specially deputed to Oman has escorted him back to India. He will now be produced before the CBI Special Court in Raipur.

Chandrakar (30s, Chhattisgarh, Bhilai) went from being a juice shop owner (and previously a clothes salesman) to one of India's most wanted economic offenders. In 2018, he co-founded Mahadev Online Books with Ravi Uppal of Bhilai. What started as an online betting platform rapidly grew into a massive international syndicate.

Based in Dubai, they ran illegal b...