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

Id-Direttorat tal-Infurzar tal-Indja (ED) ħabbret Il-Ġimgħa li ffriżat żewġ kripto-muniti oħra taħt l-Att dwar il-Prevenzjoni tal-Ħasil ​​tal-Flus (PMLA) tal-pajjiż. L-ED hija l-aġenzija tal-infurzar tal-liġi u l-intelliġenza ekonomika tal-gvern Indjan. Id-dettalji tat-tħabbira:

Id-Direttorat tal-Infurzar (ED) iffriża l-kripto-muniti WRX (utility token ta’ Wazirx) u USDT (tether, token Ethereum li huwa marbut mal-valur ta 'dollaru Amerikan) ekwivalenti għal Rs 47.64 lakhs.

L-ED bdiet investigazzjoni dwar il-ħasil tal-flus ta’ Aamir Khan u oħrajn relatati ma’ E-nuggets fuq il-bażi ta’ FIR datata l-15 ta’ Frar, 2021.

Aamir Khan, S/o Nesar Ahmed Khan nieda E-Nuggets, "li kienet iddisinjata għall-iskop ta 'frodi tal-pubbliku," qalet l-awtorità Indjana. "Barra minn hekk, wara li nġabar ammont gustuż mill-pubbliku, f'daqqa waħda, l-irtirar mill-imsemmija app, twaqqaf, bl-iskuża ta' skuża waħda u oħra."

L-aġenzija spjegat li l-investigazzjonijiet tagħha wrew li l-akkużat ittrasferixxa l-ammont li qala’ permezz tal-app tal-logħob E-nuggets bl-użu ta’ skambju ta’ kripto-munita, u jelabora:

Ammont ekwivalenti għal Rs 47.64 lakh instab fil-kartiera ta 'Wazirx (skambju kripto) li jappartjenu lil Aamir khan u l-assoċjati tiegħu u l-istess ġie ffriżat taħt il-PMLA.

Barra minn hekk, l-ED innota li waqt tfittxijiet li saru qabel kontra Amir Khan, instabu Rs 17.32 crore flus kontanti u maqbuda mill-bini residenzjali.

Indian Authority Freezes More Bitcoin at Binance

L-aħħar avviż mill-ED jgħid:

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.

F'tħabbira preċedenti, l-ED qal li kien iffriżat 77.62710139 bitcoins fuq Binance. Dan ifisser li l-ED ffriżat 8.29160415 aktar BTC.

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

L-ED ffriża l-assi tal-bank ta’ Wazirx li jiswa aktar minn $8 miljun f’Awwissu. Madankollu, aktar kmieni dan ix-xahar, Wazirx qalet li l-kontijiet bankarji tagħha kienu mhux iffriżat. Wara Wazirx, l-ED ffriżat kripto u assi bankarji li jiswew $ 46 miljun ta 'Vauld, pjattaforma kripto sostnuta minn Peter Thiel. F'Awwissu, l-aġenzija mfittxija skambju kripto Coinswitch Kuber. Madankollu, is-CEO tal-borża qal li ma kinitx relatata mal-investigazzjonijiet tal-ħasil tal-flus.

X'taħseb dwar l-awtorità Indjana li tiffriża aktar kripto-muniti fost investigazzjonijiet dwar il-ħasil tal-flus? Għidilna fit-taqsima tal-kummenti hawn taħt.

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