Karnataka Congress seeks judicial probe into bitcoin scam
The Hindu
‘Govt.-controlled agencies not been conducting a fair probe’
The State Congress on Wednesday alleged that there was no transparency in the way bitcoin scam was being handled and demanded that the State Government hand over the case to a judge of the Supreme Court.
Congress MLA and former IT Minister Priyank Kharge and MLA and former Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy alleged that the government-controlled agencies had not been conducting a fair investigation into the scam to protect the involvement of the “big people” in the multi-crore cryptocurrency transactions.
“BJP leaders are yet to answer the questions we posed on the scam and we have found more discrepancies on how the BJP Government is handling this case,” Mr. Kharge said. At a press conference here, the Congress leaders claimed that the case was being hushed up to save the the Basavaraj Bommai-led Government.