Bollywood Actor-turned-director Arbaaz Khan has been charged by the Thane police in connection with a multi-crore Indian Premier League (IPL) betting scam.

Arbaaz, who is the younger brother of Salman Khan, has been asked to record his statement after the kingpin of a betting racket named Sonu Jalan named him during a police interrogation. Arbaaz’s father, Salim Khan had a chat with the reporters and said that the actor is currently out of the town. Salim said that he doesn’t know who Sonu Jalan is.

According to the police, Jalan placed bets on behalf of the Bollywood actor on an online betting system that he had evolved to trick cops in the recently concluded of IPL. Betting centers said police were set up all over the country as well as abroad and Jalan ran his operation from Dombivali in Mumbai.

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The reports also suggest that Jalan is pretty close to the Dawood Ibrahim gang that runs a cricket betting mafia from Pakistan and UAE.

Police inspector Pradeep Sharma, who is currently investigating the case, says the annual turnover of the racket could be over INR 100 crores. Jalan was arrested by the Thane police in Kalyan, where he had come to meet another accused in the IPL betting case. The 42-year-old bookie has numerous cases registered against him and his name had even cropped up during the IPL scam busted by Mumbai Police in 2012.

The bookie had men working for him in countries like Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, South Africa and various countries in Europe as well, police said. In India, betting centers were being run from Ahmedabad, Delhi, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Chandigarh.