Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are back in the news after Congress Maharashtra unit chief Nana Patole and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) leader Supriya Sule were accused of being involved in “illegal bitcoin activities” during the election campaign. The CBI has summoned Gaurav Mehta and asked him to join the inquiry in the Bitcoin investment scheme scam case. However, there has been no response from Gaurav Mehta yet. CBI has taken major action in case of fraud against people in bitcoin investment scheme. CBI has registered a case against Ajay Bharadwaj, Amit Bharadwaj and several others. Before the CBI, the state police had registered an FIR in the scam across the country.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today raided Chhattisgarh-based locations of Gaurav Mehta linked to the Bitcoin case in poll-bound Maharashtra. The search is being conducted as part of an ongoing investigation into a money laundering case. Sources said raids were conducted under the provisions of PMLA at Mehta’s premises in Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur.
What is the case for Bitcoin manipulation?
Actually, the mastermind of this scam was a person named Amit Bharadwaj who ran this scam in the name of investing in Bitcoin. Hundreds of investors were defrauded. Investing in Bitcoin promised a return of 10% per month. After this scam, Amit Bharadwaj fled to Dubai but was sent back to India. He died of a heart attack in the year 2022. In this scam, Amit Bharadwaj gave 285 bitcoins to Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra in the name of opening a bitcoin mining farm in Ukraine. At that time the value of these bitcoins was around 150 crore rupees.
About 40 FIRs were registered in this case in Maharashtra and Punjab. Former IPS and cyber expert Ravindra Nath was also included in the investigation team to probe the case. It is alleged that the then Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta and one IPS Bhagyashree seized these bitcoin wallets and in return kept the bitcoin wallets which did not contain money.
Gaurav Mehta testified when Rabindranath went to jail.
In this scam, Rabindranath was arrested and sent to jail. Gaurav Mehta testified when Rabindranath went to jail. Gaurav Mehta is an important character in this case. ED arrested Shimpi Bharadwaj, Nitin Gaur and Nikhil Mahajan in this case. Shimpi Bhardwaj is the wife of Amit Bhardwaj’s brother Ajay Bhardwaj. The ED has also filed a chargesheet in the court against Amit Bhardwaj and his family.
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