ED records statement of audit company employee in Bitcoin scam; CBI asks him to appear
The Hindu
ED and CBI investigate Bitcoin Ponzi scam suspect Gaurav Mehta, linked to political figures in Maharashtra election scandal.
The ED and the CBI on Wednesday (November 20, 2024) ramped up their investigations against Bitcoin Ponzi 'scam' suspect Gaurav Mehta, a day after the BJP made public voice notes to allege that Congress and NCP (SP) leaders were trying to encash cryptocurrency to influence Maharashtra assembly polls.
The allegations were refuted by NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule and Congress leader Nana Patole who termed the voice notes released by the BJP on the eve of polling as fake.
Gaurav Mehta, an audit company employee, was at the centre of the action taken by the two federal probe agencies on Wednesday with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) carrying out searches at his Raipur residence while the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) issued summons to him seeking his presence before the investigating officer as soon as possible.
The CBI has registered three cases related to Gain Bitcoin Ponzi scheme case last month on the orders of the Supreme Court issued in December, 2023.
The ED questioned Mehta and recorded his statement during the searches. It also seized some computers and digital devices.
ED officials said the agency has widened its ongoing money laundering probe into a crypto (Bitcoin) assets ponzi scam and is investigating the "links" of Mehta and some others with politicians, politically exposed persons and bureaucrats.
The agency attached assets worth ₹98 crore of actor Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra in April as part of this crypto-ponzi probe. The couple challenged the ED action and got relief from the Bombay High Court.
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