By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday stated it has frozen bitcoins value Rs 12.83 crore as a part of an ongoing cash laundering probe towards the promoter of a Kolkata-based cell gaming app company this is purported to have duped various other folks.
Cryptocurrency value 77.62710139 bitcoins is saved within the Binance crypto change and it belongs to an individual named Aamir Khan who owns a cell gaming utility known as E-Nuggets, the federal probe company stated in a commentary.
The ED had raided the premises of the corporate and that of Khan and his father Nesar Ahmed Khan in Kolkata early this month and seized Rs 17.32 crore money from there.
Aamir Khan used to be arrested by means of the detective division of the Kolkata Police from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh closing week.
The cash laundering case stems from an FIR filed by means of the Kolkata Police towards the corporate and its promoters in February 2021.
This FIR used to be registered on the Park Side road police station in keeping with a grievance filed by means of the Federal Financial institution government prior to a court docket in Kolkata, the ED had stated.
The company discovered that Khan had introduced the gaming utility E-Nuggets, which used to be designed for the aim of “defrauding” the general public.
“After accumulating a large amount of cash from the general public, hastily withdrawal from the app used to be stopped on one pretext or the opposite. Thereafter, all information together with profile knowledge used to be wiped off from the stated app servers,” the ED stated.
The accused used to be moving a part of the volume “illegally earned” during the gaming app to out of the country places by means of the usage of a cryptocurrency change, the company alleged.
“It used to be discovered that one such dummy account within the identify of Sima Naskar (owner of Pixal Design) used to be opened within the WazirX crypto change, which used to be used to buy cryptocurrencies/crypto property. Thereafter, the stated cryptocurrencies have been additional transferred to any other account in any other crypto change known as Binance,” the ED stated.
The stability of this crypto quantity (77.62710139 Bitcoins) is identical to USD 15,73,466 or about Rs 12.83 crore saved in Binance crypto change and that has been freezed, it stated.
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday stated it has frozen bitcoins value Rs 12.83 crore as a part of an ongoing cash laundering probe towards the promoter of a Kolkata-based cell gaming app company this is purported to have duped various other folks.
Cryptocurrency value 77.62710139 bitcoins is saved within the Binance crypto change and it belongs to an individual named Aamir Khan who owns a cell gaming utility known as E-Nuggets, the federal probe company stated in a commentary.
The ED had raided the premises of the corporate and that of Khan and his father Nesar Ahmed Khan in Kolkata early this month and seized Rs 17.32 crore money from there.
Aamir Khan used to be arrested by means of the detective division of the Kolkata Police from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh closing week.
The cash laundering case stems from an FIR filed by means of the Kolkata Police towards the corporate and its promoters in February 2021.
This FIR used to be registered on the Park Side road police station in keeping with a grievance filed by means of the Federal Financial institution government prior to a court docket in Kolkata, the ED had stated.
The company discovered that Khan had introduced the gaming utility E-Nuggets, which used to be designed for the aim of “defrauding” the general public.
“After accumulating a large amount of cash from the general public, hastily withdrawal from the app used to be stopped on one pretext or the opposite. Thereafter, all information together with profile knowledge used to be wiped off from the stated app servers,” the ED stated.
The accused used to be moving a part of the volume “illegally earned” during the gaming app to out of the country places by means of the usage of a cryptocurrency change, the company alleged.
“It used to be discovered that one such dummy account within the identify of Sima Naskar (owner of Pixal Design) used to be opened within the WazirX crypto change, which used to be used to buy cryptocurrencies/crypto property. Thereafter, the stated cryptocurrencies have been additional transferred to any other account in any other crypto change known as Binance,” the ED stated.
The stability of this crypto quantity (77.62710139 Bitcoins) is identical to USD 15,73,466 or about Rs 12.83 crore saved in Binance crypto change and that has been freezed, it stated.
