KOLKATA: Aamir Khan — one of the masterminds of the gaming app, E-nugget — had made transactions worth Rs 7,343 crore or 44,000 Bitcoins over the past two years, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials claimed on Friday.
The developments over the past few weeks have now turned out to be part of the biggest cryptocurrency probe in Bengal. The ED, which on Friday submitted a progress report of the investigation with the Special PMLA court in Kolkata, said that there could be more transactions, which are still untraced.
The amount of the money generated through the gaming app route each day has startled the investigators who are untangling the web of cryptocurrency and gaming-app that Khan had created while sitting in Kolkata.
In its submission at the Special PMLA Court on Friday, ED lawyer Arijit Chakraborty said that Khan collected the amount for the gaming app and then routed it through a number of bank accounts.
There are more than 300 bank accounts, through which money was routed. The officials are looking into each of these accounts. His aide Rumen Agarwal, now in custody of the Enforcement Directorate, helped in transacting the money through a network that operated over the dark web.
According to ED sources, nearly 350 bank accounts in India are being scanned to track the money trail.
As the investigators stumbled upon a virtual wallet, they found huge transactions in cryptocurrency.
The transactions of 44,000 bitcoins, so far tracked by the central investigating agency officials, were done by Khan and Agarwal over the past two years. Each Bitcoin is worth Rs 16.6 lakh as on date.
The amount of the money generated through the gaming app route each day has startled the investigators.
The developments over the past few weeks have now turned out to be part of the biggest cryptocurrency probe in Bengal. The ED, which on Friday submitted a progress report of the investigation with the Special PMLA court in Kolkata, said that there could be more transactions, which are still untraced.
The amount of the money generated through the gaming app route each day has startled the investigators who are untangling the web of cryptocurrency and gaming-app that Khan had created while sitting in Kolkata.
In its submission at the Special PMLA Court on Friday, ED lawyer Arijit Chakraborty said that Khan collected the amount for the gaming app and then routed it through a number of bank accounts.
There are more than 300 bank accounts, through which money was routed. The officials are looking into each of these accounts. His aide Rumen Agarwal, now in custody of the Enforcement Directorate, helped in transacting the money through a network that operated over the dark web.
According to ED sources, nearly 350 bank accounts in India are being scanned to track the money trail.
As the investigators stumbled upon a virtual wallet, they found huge transactions in cryptocurrency.
The transactions of 44,000 bitcoins, so far tracked by the central investigating agency officials, were done by Khan and Agarwal over the past two years. Each Bitcoin is worth Rs 16.6 lakh as on date.
The amount of the money generated through the gaming app route each day has startled the investigators.
