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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 Penegak India (ED) ngumumkeun Jumaah yén éta geus beku dua cryptocurrencies leuwih nagara urang Pencegahan Money Laundering Act (PMLA). ED nyaéta lembaga penegak hukum sareng intelijen ékonomi pamaréntah India. Rincian pengumuman:
Direktorat Penegak (ED) parantos ngabébaskeun mata uang crypto WRX (token utiliti Wazirx) sareng USDT (tether, token Ethereum anu dipatok kana nilai dollar AS) sarua jeung Rs 47.64 lakhs.
ED ngamimitian panalungtikan pencucian artos Aamir Khan sareng anu sanés anu aya hubunganana sareng E-nugget dumasar kana FIR tanggal 15 Pebruari 2021.
Aamir Khan, S / o Nesar Ahmed Khan ngaluncurkeun E-Nuggets, "anu dirarancang pikeun tujuan nipu masarakat," saur otoritas India. "Salajengna, saatos ngumpulkeun jumlah anu lumayan ti masarakat, ngadadak, ditarikna tina aplikasi anu disebatkeun, dieureunkeun, kalayan alesan hiji sareng alesan anu sanés."
Lembaga éta ngécéskeun yén panyelidikan na ngungkabkeun yén terdakwa nransferkeun jumlah anu didamel tina aplikasi kaulinan E-nuggets nganggo bursa mata uang digital, ngajelaskeun:
Jumlah sarua jeung Rs 47.64 lakh kapanggih dina dompet Wazirx (crypto bursa) milik Aamir khan jeung associates na sarua geus freezed handapeun PMLA.
Salaku tambahan, ED nyatakeun yén nalika milarian anu dilakukeun sateuacanna ngalawan Amir Khan, Rs 17.32 crore kas kapanggih sareng disita tina tempat padumukan.
Indian Authority Freezes More Bitcoin at Binance
Pengumuman panganyarna ku ED nyatakeun:
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.
Dina hiji pengumuman saméméhna, ED ceuk eta geus beku 77.62710139 bitcoins dina Binance. Éta hartina ED beku 8.29160415 deui BTC.
Binance was believed to have acquired Wazirx in 2019. However, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) recently ceuk that the acquisition “was never completed,” emphasizing that “Binance has never — at any point — owned any shares of Zanmai Labs, the entity operating Wazirx.”
ED beku aset bank tina Wazirx patut leuwih ti $8 juta dina bulan Agustus. Nanging, awal bulan ieu, Wazirx nyarios yén rekening bankna parantos teu beku. Saatos Wazirx, ED froze crypto sareng aset bank bernilai $ 46 juta Vauld, platform crypto anu dirojong ku Peter Thiel. Dina Agustus, agénsi neangan bursa crypto Coinswitch Kuber. Tapi, CEO bursa nyarios yén éta henteu aya hubunganana sareng panyilidikan pencucian artos.
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