By 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 in opposition to the promoter of a Kolkata-based cellular gaming app agency that’s alleged to have duped quite a few folks.
Cryptocurrency value 77.62710139 bitcoins is saved within the Binance crypto alternate and it belongs to an individual named Aamir Khan who owns a cellular gaming software referred to as E-Nuggets, the federal probe company stated in an announcement.
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 was arrested by the detective division of the Kolkata Police from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh final week.
The cash laundering case stems from an FIR filed by the Kolkata Police in opposition to the corporate and its promoters in February 2021.
This FIR was registered on the Park Street police station based mostly on a criticism filed by the Federal Bank authorities earlier than a court docket in Kolkata, the ED had stated.
The company discovered that Khan had launched the gaming software E-Nuggets, which was designed for the aim of “defrauding” the general public.
“After collecting a sizable amount of money from the public, all of a sudden withdrawal from the app was stopped on one pretext or the other. Thereafter, all data including profile information was wiped off from the said app servers,” the ED stated.
The accused was transferring a part of the quantity “illegally earned” via the gaming app to abroad areas through the use of a cryptocurrency alternate, the company alleged.
“It was found that one such dummy account in the name of Sima Naskar (proprietor of Pixal Design) was opened in the WazirX crypto exchange, which was used to purchase cryptocurrencies/crypto assets. Thereafter, the said cryptocurrencies were further transferred to another account in another crypto exchange called Binance,” the ED stated.
The steadiness of this crypto quantity (77.62710139 Bitcoins) is equal to USD 15,73,466 or about Rs 12.83 crore saved in Binance crypto alternate 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 in opposition to the promoter of a Kolkata-based cellular gaming app agency that’s alleged to have duped quite a few folks.
Cryptocurrency value 77.62710139 bitcoins is saved within the Binance crypto alternate and it belongs to an individual named Aamir Khan who owns a cellular gaming software referred to as E-Nuggets, the federal probe company stated in an announcement.
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 was arrested by the detective division of the Kolkata Police from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh final week.
The cash laundering case stems from an FIR filed by the Kolkata Police in opposition to the corporate and its promoters in February 2021.
This FIR was registered on the Park Street police station based mostly on a criticism filed by the Federal Bank authorities earlier than a court docket in Kolkata, the ED had stated.
The company discovered that Khan had launched the gaming software E-Nuggets, which was designed for the aim of “defrauding” the general public.
“After collecting a sizable amount of money from the public, all of a sudden withdrawal from the app was stopped on one pretext or the other. Thereafter, all data including profile information was wiped off from the said app servers,” the ED stated.
The accused was transferring a part of the quantity “illegally earned” via the gaming app to abroad areas through the use of a cryptocurrency alternate, the company alleged.
“It was found that one such dummy account in the name of Sima Naskar (proprietor of Pixal Design) was opened in the WazirX crypto exchange, which was used to purchase cryptocurrencies/crypto assets. Thereafter, the said cryptocurrencies were further transferred to another account in another crypto exchange called Binance,” the ED stated.
The steadiness of this crypto quantity (77.62710139 Bitcoins) is equal to USD 15,73,466 or about Rs 12.83 crore saved in Binance crypto alternate and that has been freezed, it stated.
