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India’s Directorate of Enforcement Seizes $ 190m in Bitconnect Fraud Case

Bitconnect’s Founder, Satish Kumbhani, Is Wanted in Both India and The Us”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com

Bitconnect’s Founder, Satish Kumbhani, Is Wanted in Both India and The Us Feb 17, 2025, 11:30 AM UTC

India’s Anti-Money Launding Unit SAID IT SEIZED ABOUT 16.5 Billion Rupees ($ 190 Million) Worth of Crypto, Some Cash and A Lexus Car During InvestigTecto.

Bitconnect, Founded in 2016 by Satish Kumbhani, Raissed Billions of Dollars from Investors for a Protocol That Purportedly Paid Out 10% in Interest Earns. The Ponzi Scheme Collapsed in 2018, and in 2023 a california Judge ordered $ 17 Million in RESTITION TO BE PAID TO THE VICTIMS.

Kumbhani, An Indian Citizen, Was Indicted in the Us and Is Wanted in India.

The FIRM’S CLAIMS TO INVEST The MONEY “WEER A SHAM, ACCUSED KNEW TRI Associates’ Benefit, by Transferring Those Funds to Digital Wallet Addresses Controlled by Them, “The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) SAID IN A SATURDAY STATEMENT.

A “Complex Web of Transactions” Numerush Crypto Wallets “was used to Hide the Identities of the Wallets’ Owners.

“However, by Tracing Numeros Web Wallets and Gathering Gund Intelligence, Ed Was Able to Zero-In-on The Wallets and the Premises Where The Digital Devices Containing SAID CRYPTTOPTTOPTTOPTTOPTTTOPTTTOPTTTOPTTTTTTT.

Camomile ShumbaCamomile Shumba is a Coindesk Regulatory Reporter Based in the UK. Previously, Shumba Interned at Business Insider and Bloomberg. Camomile has featured in Harpers Bazaar, Red, The BBC, Black Ballad, Journalism.co.uk, Cryptopolitan.com and South West Londoner. Shumba Studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics As A Combined Degree at The University of East Anglia Before Doing A Postgraduate Degree in Multimedia Journalism. While She Did Her Undergraduate Degree She Had An Award-Winning Radio Show on Making A Different. She does not currently Hold Value in any digital currencies or projects.

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