Hacker: Cid Probing Ccb’s Work In Bitcoin Case Conducts Raids On Hacker Sriki, 2 Friends | Bengaluru News
BENGALURU: Sleuths from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), probing alleged irregularities in the probe into the Bitcoin scam of 2020, on Tuesday raided the houses of three prominent accused — Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki and his close friends Suneesh Hegde and Prasidh Shetty.
The sleuths, equipped with a search warrant from a local court, started early Tuesday morning. Three teams, each led by a CID police inspector, reached the houses in Jayanagar (Sriki), Sadashivanagar (Suneesh Hegde), and Sanjaynagar (Prasidh Shetty). A senior CID officer told TOI the raids were part of the ongoing investigation into the Bitcoin case.
CID sources said they had taken statements from the trio recently. “Also, we’re waiting for a few more reports from the Forensic Science Laboratory in connection with the seized electronic items, including laptops and mobile phones,” he said.
Last month, a deputy superintendent of police, SIT, filed an FIR against Central Crime Branch (CCB) police who had investigated the case in 2020 and others.
“The then CCB officials had seized gadgets like mobile phones, hard disks, laptops and other materials from the accused. After we took over investigation against those CCB officials, we found that more files were created in these gadgets when they were in the possession of CCB officials,” the complaint read. “The adding of files shows that the CCB officials and others had vested interest and ulterior motives.”
Hacker nabbed in 2020
In November 2020, when the BJP government was in power, KG Nagar police arrested M Sujay, 30, of Sadashivanagar, on drug-peddling charges. During investigation, police found the drugs were purchased through the darknet by paying in Bitcoins.
Later, police arrested Srikrishna alias Sriki, a hacker who had studied in The Netherlands, for his alleged role in dealing with Bitcoins in the case.
Sriki was accused of hacking into government portals too. Later, it was alleged that there were irregularities in the investigation by CCB, and the names of many bureaucrats, politicians and cops surfaced as beneficiaries of the irregularities. In July this year, the Congress government formed an SIT to probe the irregularities.
The sleuths, equipped with a search warrant from a local court, started early Tuesday morning. Three teams, each led by a CID police inspector, reached the houses in Jayanagar (Sriki), Sadashivanagar (Suneesh Hegde), and Sanjaynagar (Prasidh Shetty). A senior CID officer told TOI the raids were part of the ongoing investigation into the Bitcoin case.
CID sources said they had taken statements from the trio recently. “Also, we’re waiting for a few more reports from the Forensic Science Laboratory in connection with the seized electronic items, including laptops and mobile phones,” he said.
Last month, a deputy superintendent of police, SIT, filed an FIR against Central Crime Branch (CCB) police who had investigated the case in 2020 and others.
“The then CCB officials had seized gadgets like mobile phones, hard disks, laptops and other materials from the accused. After we took over investigation against those CCB officials, we found that more files were created in these gadgets when they were in the possession of CCB officials,” the complaint read. “The adding of files shows that the CCB officials and others had vested interest and ulterior motives.”
Hacker nabbed in 2020
In November 2020, when the BJP government was in power, KG Nagar police arrested M Sujay, 30, of Sadashivanagar, on drug-peddling charges. During investigation, police found the drugs were purchased through the darknet by paying in Bitcoins.
Later, police arrested Srikrishna alias Sriki, a hacker who had studied in The Netherlands, for his alleged role in dealing with Bitcoins in the case.
Sriki was accused of hacking into government portals too. Later, it was alleged that there were irregularities in the investigation by CCB, and the names of many bureaucrats, politicians and cops surfaced as beneficiaries of the irregularities. In July this year, the Congress government formed an SIT to probe the irregularities.
