Bitcoins Frozen: ED seizes bitcoins worth more than 120 million, action in gaming app e-nuggets case

Posted on 29th Sep 2022 02:51 pm by rohit kumar

ED today took major action in a money laundering case related to gaming app e-nuggets. The Central Investigation Agency has seized bitcoins worth Rs 12.83 crore belonging to a person named Aamir Khan and others.

 

ED officials said that this action was taken under the provisions of PMLA. It is alleged that Aamir Khan of Kolkata has cheated crores through this mobile gaming app. The ED had recently recovered over Rs 17 crore from Aamir's house in Garden Reach, Kolkata. Thereafter he was arrested.

 

On September 24, the court directed them to keep him in police custody for 14 days. Aamir was nabbed by the police from Ghaziabad in UP. His custody will end on October 8. Aamir had launched a mobile gaming application named e.nuggets. This was an app through which he used to give money initially. After that, he used to withdraw the money of the customers through an e-wallet.

 

IFFCO MD's properties worth 54 crores attached

 

Meanwhile, the ED attached assets worth over Rs 54 crore of US Awasthi, Managing Director (MD) of Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) in a money laundering case. Attached assets include mutual funds, shares, bonds, and bank deposits. This action has been taken against him in the case of the 685 crore fertilizer scam and bribery.

 

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