Mr Modipane was obliged to resign as provincial finance minister last year after allegations were made of his involvement in a fraud whereby 32 provincial game parks were illegally used as collateral for offshore loans.
The Kolkata, India-based brothers first created a Web site for playing an online version of the word game Scrabble several years ago, "just for the love of the game, " says Jayant, 21, who also runs an offshore Web development firm with his brother.