365Telugu.com online news,March 2nd,2023: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids in Kolkata on Wednesday. About 12 places were raided in the case related to mobile gaming application E-Nuggets.
During the raid, the investigating agency also searched a house on Shambhunath Pandit Street in Bhavanipur, south Kolkata. It has been revealed that the accused is cheating people through a mobile gaming application.
Aamir Khan, the main accused in the e-nuggets case, allegedly used multiple bank accounts to facilitate transactions worth hundreds of crores in cryptocurrencies. Sources said the accounts used by the accused belonged to people belonging to low income groups.
Earlier, the main accused Aamir Khan was arrested by the ED. Aamir Khan, the main accused in the e-nuggets case, allegedly used multiple bank accounts to facilitate transactions worth hundreds of crores in cryptocurrencies.
ED sources said that the accounts used by the accused belonged to people belonging to low income group. The investigating agency has frozen the cryptocurrency under the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
It is also said that the officials who searched the house conducted cash transactions in the form of cryptocurrency to cheat people from the e-wallet. A part of the amount stolen from the victims was also recovered during the searches.
However, how much was seized..? ED has not yet confirmed the matter. In his statement to the ED, the accused’s father was working as a peon in a private company and had no knowledge about cryptocurrencies and e-nuggets gaming application.
Rides in the slum area of Kolkata..
ED conducted raids in the slum area of Kolkata. The ED is all set to take action in the mobile gaming application e-nuggets scam case. In October last year also, the E-D team conducted raids on the residences of two businessmen in the E-Nuggets case.
Searches were conducted at two places in Kolkata and Rs. 1.65 crore in cash, 44.5 bitcoins (equivalent to Rs 7.12 crore) and other incriminating documents under PMLA, the ED said in an official statement. The investigation in the case related to gaming app e-Nuggets is ongoing.
In September last year, ED officials raided the residence of businessman Amir Khan’s father Nasir Khan in Garden Reach area of Kolkata. On this occasion, ED seized huge amount of cash and gold from his residence.
The ED officials confirmed that this cash was part of the proceeds of the scam. Aamir Khan has been accused of cheating people out of crores of rupees by launching a mobile gaming application called e-Nuggets.