Karnataka’s BJP govt rattled as Bitcoin allegations reach PMO

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Kar­nataka’s rul­ing BJP seems to be rat­tled as the alle­ga­tions against top state par­ty lead­ers in the Bit­coin scan­dal have reached the Prime Min­is­ter’s Office.

Sources say that the alle­ga­tions are being tak­en seri­ous­ly and the PMO has rec­om­mend­ed fur­ther inves­ti­ga­tion in the mat­ter. This has cre­at­ed a furore among a sec­tion of the lead­er­ship, espe­cial­ly the top-rung lead­ers, and par­ty insid­ers say that the devel­op­ment could lead to major changes in the rul­ing establishment.

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The oppo­si­tion Con­gress has stat­ed that it will file an appli­ca­tion under RTI on the Bit­coin scan­dal, accord­ing to its state chief D.K. Shivakumar.

Sources claim that an anony­mous let­ter con­tains the explo­sive details of the state’s top BJP lead­ers alleged­ly join­ing hands with the main accused in the Bit­coin scan­dal Srikr­ish­na Ramesh aka Sri­ki to make money.

Con­sid­er­ing the seri­ous­ness of the issue, the PMO has sug­gest­ed a high-lev­el inves­ti­ga­tion as the scan­dal involv­ing the hack­ing of inter­na­tion­al banks has seri­ous­ly dam­aged the image of the country.

The sources also alleged that the accused had hacked into the ‘Jan Dhan project’ which has 80 lakh accounts and mint­ed mon­ey in hun­dreds of crores.

It is also alleged that the main accused Sri­ki was hack­ing into var­i­ous state gov­ern­ment e‑tender por­tals, includ­ing the Irri­ga­tion Depart­ment and Upper Krish­na Project, and big con­trac­tors had tak­en his help to bag lucra­tive con­tracts, the sources said.

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Sources also say that the recent IT raids across the state in which hun­dreds of crores of dis­pro­por­tion­ate assets were found in the pre­lim­i­nary inves­ti­ga­tion, is also linked to the Bit­coin scan­dal. How­ev­er, the inves­ti­ga­tion agen­cies have yet to con­firm this.

Sources also allege that an influ­en­tial politi­cian’s son in the state has tak­en the help of Sri­ki to trans­fer huge amounts of mon­ey to Mauritius.

There is spec­u­la­tion that the par­ty’s Cen­tral lead­er­ship is think­ing about major changes in the state unit fol­low­ing this devel­op­ment, and it is said that the com­plaint and all details are pro­vid­ed by the BJP insid­ers in Karnataka.

Mean­while, Shiv­aku­mar has again urged Chief Min­ster Basavaraj Bom­mai to make pub­lic the doc­u­ment refer­ring to the Bit­coin scan­dal to the Enforce­ment Direc­torate (ED). “The Chief Min­is­ter him­self has stat­ed that he had referred the scan­dal to the ED. I want him to release doc­u­ments,” he demanded.

Sources in Con­gress say that Leader of Oppo­si­tion Sid­dara­ma­iah is gath­er­ing doc­u­ments on the scan­dal and will hold a press con­fer­ence on Mon­day to make explo­sive charges against rul­ing BJP lead­ers in the state.

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