By Biswanath Dash
BHUBANESWAR: Crypto trade worth more than Rs One Crore detected in OTP Sharing Scam (to Pakistani Intelligence Operatives, STF P.S Case No.10/2023).During investigation of the above case, it was found that the two accused namely Pritam Kar of Jajpur and Saroj Kumar Nayak of Nayagarh have been involved in Crypto trading through various Indian and foreign Exchanges.
Investigations revealed that the accused Pritam Kar had signed up with a leading Crpto Exchange using E- Mail ID. Two Bank accounts and one UPI ID of the accused was linked with the said exchange.
On analysis of the Crypto trade history of the particular ID ,it came to surface that in the time period of two years, the volume oftrade in the account was more than Rs 1 Crore. The account had redflagareas in terms of crypto deposits from unidentified sources majorly from exchanges namely Coinbase, FTX and Bitmart all located outside India and also transfer of Crypto assets to exchanges out of India. Further, Investigations revealed that, the accused Pritam Kar wasreferred by a dubious person on the Crypto platform, having a referralhistory of thousands of people.
The said matter is under investigation. Investigations revealed that the accused Saroj Kumar Nayak of Nayagarh, had signed in a leading crypto exchange using E-mail ID. HisUser ID is linked with two saving Bank accounts number and two UPIID’s. The volume of Crypto trade is nearly Rs 3 lakhs. In this case too, INR was withdrawn using Crypto exchanges based outside India.In this regard, both the Crypto accounts of accused Pritam Kar andSaroj Kumar Nayak was blocked by STF.
