Government Employees: Crypto Scam: ‘5k Govt Employees, Including Cops, Invested Money’ |
Shimla: Investigations have revealed that 5,000 government employees, including several police personnel, invested heavily in the Rs 2,500-crore crypto currency scam that was busted recently. Meanwhile, the special investigation ream (SIT) probing the case has concluded that an amount of Rs 500 crore has been earmarked as “not recoverable.”
Deputy chief minister Mukesh Agnihotri, interacting with media in Shimla on Saturday, said scammers had involved one lakh people in the scam, and around 300 complaints had been received.He said the probe revealed that 100 people had earned over Rs 2 crore each through the scam, while 200 people earned over Rs 1 crore each. “Four kingpins who had conceived the entire plan have been identified — Subhash Sharma, Hem Raj and Sukhdev from Mandi district and Abhisek from Una district. The main kingpin, Subhash of Sarkaghat, earned Rs 200 crore and has fled to Dubai with his wife. State police is in the process of issuing a lookout notice for Sharma via Interpol, for which formalities are being completed. People who have earned above Rs 2 crore from the scam are being questioned. SIT has seized 80 phones,” he said.
Agnihotri added a meeting was held over the issue on Saturday, where DGP Sanjay Kundu gave an update about the the investigation. The deputy CM said the SIT had arrested 10 persons so far, and more arrests would be made in future. Kundu said that the department had reconstructed the website involved in the scam, having almost 2.5 lakh different IDs. tnn
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Deputy chief minister Mukesh Agnihotri, interacting with media in Shimla on Saturday, said scammers had involved one lakh people in the scam, and around 300 complaints had been received.He said the probe revealed that 100 people had earned over Rs 2 crore each through the scam, while 200 people earned over Rs 1 crore each. “Four kingpins who had conceived the entire plan have been identified — Subhash Sharma, Hem Raj and Sukhdev from Mandi district and Abhisek from Una district. The main kingpin, Subhash of Sarkaghat, earned Rs 200 crore and has fled to Dubai with his wife. State police is in the process of issuing a lookout notice for Sharma via Interpol, for which formalities are being completed. People who have earned above Rs 2 crore from the scam are being questioned. SIT has seized 80 phones,” he said.
Agnihotri added a meeting was held over the issue on Saturday, where DGP Sanjay Kundu gave an update about the the investigation. The deputy CM said the SIT had arrested 10 persons so far, and more arrests would be made in future. Kundu said that the department had reconstructed the website involved in the scam, having almost 2.5 lakh different IDs. tnn
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