India Freezes More Crypto Including Bitcoin and Tether as Investigation Involving Binance and Wazirx Deepens

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India Freezes More Crypto Including Bitcoin and Tether as Investigation Involving Binance and Wazirx Deepens

India’s Directorate of Enforcement (ED) says it has frozen more cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, tether, and the Wazirx token. The action is part of its investigation of the mobile gaming app E-nuggets. In its latest announcement, the ED revealed that nearly 86 bitcoins found at crypto exchange Binance were frozen.

Indian Authority Freezes More Cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Tether, Wazirx Token

Direktorat Penegakan India (ED) announced Ana sing wis beku loro cryptocurrencies liyane ing negara kang Nyegah saka Money Laundering undhang (PMLA). ED minangka lembaga penegak hukum lan intelijen ekonomi India. Rincian pengumuman:

Direktorat Penegakan (ED) wis beku mata uang crypto WRX (token utilitas Wazirx) lan USDT (tether, token Ethereum sing digandhengake karo nilai dolar AS) padha karo Rs 47.64 lakhs.

ED miwiti investigasi pencucian dhuwit Aamir Khan lan liya-liyane sing ana hubungane karo E-nugget adhedhasar FIR tanggal 15 Februari 2021.

Aamir Khan, S / o Nesar Ahmed Khan ngluncurake E-Nuggets, "sing dirancang kanggo tujuan ngapusi umum," ujare panguwasa India. "Salajengipun, sawise ngumpulake jumlah nggantheng saka masyarakat, kabeh dumadakan, mundur saka app kasebut, mandheg, kanthi alesan siji lan liyane."

Agensi kasebut nerangake manawa investigasi kasebut nyatakake yen terdakwa nransfer jumlah sing ditampa liwat aplikasi game E-nuggets nggunakake ijol-ijolan cryptocurrency, njlentrehake:

Jumlah sing padha karo Rs 47.64 lakh ditemokake ing dompet Wazirx (ijol-ijolan crypto) duweke Aamir khan lan kanca-kancane lan padha wis beku ing PMLA.

Kajaba iku, ED nyathet yen sajrone telusuran sing ditindakake sadurunge marang Amir Khan, awis Rs 17.32 crore ditemokake lan dicekel saka papan omah.

Indian Authority Freezes More Bitcoin at Binance

Pengumuman paling anyar dening ED nyatakake:

85.91870554 bitcoins equivalent to USD $1,674,255.7 (equivalent to Rs 13.56 Cr approx. as per market exchange rate) found in balance in Binance exchange was freezed.

Ing woro-woro sadurunge, ED ujar manawa wis beku 77.62710139 bitcoins ing Binance. Tegese ED beku 8.29160415 liyane BTC.

Binance was believed to have acquired Wazirx in 2019. However, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) recently ngandika that the acquisition “was never completed,” emphasizing that “Binance has never — at any point — owned any shares of Zanmai Labs, the entity operating Wazirx.”

Ing ED beku aset bank saka Wazirx worth luwih saka $8 yuta ing Agustus. Nanging, awal wulan iki, Wazirx ujar manawa akun bank kasebut ora beku. Sawise Wazirx, ED froze crypto lan aset bank senilai $46 yuta saka Vault, platform crypto sing didhukung dening Peter Thiel. Ing Agustus, agensi digoleki ijol-ijolan crypto Coinswitch Kuber. Nanging, CEO ijol-ijolan kasebut ujar manawa ora ana hubungane karo penyelidikan pencucian uang.

Apa sampeyan mikir babagan panguwasa India sing beku luwih akeh cryptocurrencies sajrone investigasi pencucian dhuwit? Ayo kita ngerti ing bagean komentar ing ngisor iki.

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