The cyber mobile officers of Pune police are but to come across any concrete evidence in opposition to actor Shilpa Shetty’s husband, Raj Kundra, in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. The police are probing if Kundra had any business transactions with Amit Bharadwaj, owner of AcquireBitcoin, the crypotcurrency that was used in the alleged scam. Cases have been registered at Dattawadi and Nigdi police stations in Pune.
On Monday, the cyber mobile filed a 4,000-page supplementary chargesheet in the courtroom of special judge R N Sardesai in opposition to nine accused, pegging the price of the fraud in the Dattawadi case at Rs 4 crore. The amount interprets into total 433 Bitcoins, the police mentioned. The chargesheet related to the Nigdi case may be filed on June 13.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai had wondered Kundra for 8 hours on June 5 and recorded his remark in relation to the case registered through them in opposition to Bharadwaj. The Pune police had then mentioned they might read about if Kundra had any role in the circumstances registered here.
Investigating officer and cyber mobile inspector Manisha Zende told TOI, “The inquiry in opposition to Kundra is at a preliminary level and the query of his identify being discussed in the supplementary chargesheet does no longer rise up. So a ways, we have now no longer come across any concrete evidence in opposition to him.”
The fraud refers to cheating of nearly eight,000 traders of Rs 2,000 crore across the country in a multi-level advertising and marketing and Bitcoin cryptocurrency scheme. In Pune, 227 traders registered lawsuits in the two circumstances involving 1,750 Bitcoins, which interprets into a number of crores of rupees.
On Monday, the cyber mobile filed a 4,000-page supplementary chargesheet in the courtroom of special judge R N Sardesai in opposition to nine accused, pegging the price of the fraud in the Dattawadi case at Rs 4 crore. The amount interprets into total 433 Bitcoins, the police mentioned. The chargesheet related to the Nigdi case may be filed on June 13.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai had wondered Kundra for 8 hours on June 5 and recorded his remark in relation to the case registered through them in opposition to Bharadwaj. The Pune police had then mentioned they might read about if Kundra had any role in the circumstances registered here.
Investigating officer and cyber mobile inspector Manisha Zende told TOI, “The inquiry in opposition to Kundra is at a preliminary level and the query of his identify being discussed in the supplementary chargesheet does no longer rise up. So a ways, we have now no longer come across any concrete evidence in opposition to him.”
The fraud refers to cheating of nearly eight,000 traders of Rs 2,000 crore across the country in a multi-level advertising and marketing and Bitcoin cryptocurrency scheme. In Pune, 227 traders registered lawsuits in the two circumstances involving 1,750 Bitcoins, which interprets into a number of crores of rupees.
Bitcoin scam: No proof yet against Raj Kundra
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June 12, 2018
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