Cobrapost is a website that is known to carry out sting operations to expose the malpractices carried out by the biggies in the country. A few months back they did a big expose on some of the biggest publications, as to who is willing to write puff pieces for a political party in exchange for huge money. Some very famous publications like the Times group, ScoopWhoop et al were trapped in the operation. Now they have carried out a similar operation on the same scale, this time, their targets being Bollywood celebs. Cobrapost Stings Paytm: Users Uninstall the App as Video of Senior VP Claiming User Data Leaked to PMO Surfaces Online! Company Rubbishes Claims
Their latest sting operation covered around 36 actors, singers and directors. Posing as a PR group for political parties, the Cobrapost team had approached these celebs, and asked them if they are willing to promote the parties (mostly BJP and AAP) for money to create a favourable situation for them before the 2019 elections. Many of them have agreed to do so, making us wonder about the stars already tweeting in favour of these parties on social media right now.
The stars that have been exposed by Cobrapost in their sting operation, as per their blog, are "Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Kailash Kher, Mika Singh and Baba Sehgal; actors Jackie Shroff, Shakti Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Sonu Sood, Amisha Patel, Mahima Chaudhry, Shreyas Talpade, Puneet Issar, Surendra Pal, Pankaj Dheer and his son Nikitin Dheer, Tisca Chopra, Deepshikha Nagpal, Akhilendra Mishra, Rohit Roy, Rahul Bhat, Salim Zaidi, Rakhi Sawant, Aman Verma, Hiten Tejwani and spouse Gauri Pradhan, Evelyn Sharma, Minissha Lamba, Koena Mitra, Poonam Pandey, Sunny Leonne; comedians Raju Srivastava, Sunil Pal, Rajpal Yadav, Upasana Singh, Krushna Abhishek and Vijay Ishwarlal Pawar; and choreographer Ganesh Acharya and dancer Sambhavana Seth." You can check the blog here. DHFL Appoints CA Firm to Examine Allegations by Cobrapost.
They also shared videos of the stars acceding to the temptation of the bribes in the same blog. Check out some of the major ones below -
Sunny Leone
Mika Singh
Vivek Oberoi
Interestingly, Vivek Oberoi is playing Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a biopic made on his life.
Sonu Sood
Mahima Chaudhary
Jackie Shroff
Funnily, the veteran actor also drags Akshay Kumar as someone who could influence followers.
Shreyas Talpade
Shakti Kapoor
Ameesha Patel
Rakhi Sawant
We do not claim the authenticity of these videos and the circumstances in which they were recorded. So it is upto your good sense of mind to see them for what they are. BTW, the Cobrapost report also claims that Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan, Raza Murad and Saumya Tandon have refused to accept money for such activities.
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