₹22.82 Crore Worth BTC Seized

Enforcement Directorate carried out a search operation on Wallet/User ID in Binance Crypto Exchange.

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This was in relation to its ongoing probe related to the mobile gaming app E-nuggets as reported by ANI.

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The federal investigation agency froze 150.22 Bitcoins which is equivalent to Rs 22.82 crore under PMLA, 2002.

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In September, ED froze BTC worth ₹12.83 crore in an investigation against Aamir Khan and others related to E-nuggets.

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The money laundering case against E-nuggets and its promoters, was filed on February 2021 in Kolkata.

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ED also noted that Khan released the mobile gaming app E-Nuggets with the intention of defrauding users.

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In September, Central probe agency said that all data including profile data was deleted from the App servers.

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