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The Special Investigation Team of the Criminal Investigation Department recorded the statement of a murder convict in Hindalga prison in Belagavi on July 9 in connection with the bitcoin scam. The convict, Nagendra, had written to the SIT chief offering to give statement about the scam as he was present during the occurrence of a crime in Parappana Agrahara jail …

Bitcoin scam: Karnataka HC strikes down use of stringent crime law against hacker Sriki

In a setback to the Special Investigating Team probing the alleged Bitcoin scam, the High Court of Karnataka has declared as illegal the action of invoking the Karnataka Control of Organized Crimes Act, 2000 against the hacker and prime accused Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki in the first case registered in 2017. Pointing out that invoking KCOCA violated a condition prescribed …

The Special Investigation Team probing the Bitcoin scam in Karnataka has issued a notice to inspector general of police Sandeep Patil, who was the head of the Central Crime Branch when the scam took place, and was questioned earlier this year, to provide clarifications on the probe conducted against the hacker during his tenure. On Monday, the son of an …

The Special Investigation Team of the Criminal Investigation Department, which is probing the alleged bitcoin scam, is in touch with over 30 foreign-based bitcoin exchanges in a bid to collect evidence on the movement of cryptocurrencies allegedly moved by hacker Srikrishna Ramesh aka Sriki. Sriki, arrested in a darknet drugs case in 2020 by the Central Crime Branch of Bengaluru …

The Criminal Investigation Department has initiated an investigation against officers of the Central Crime Branch in connection with the Bitcoin scam case, according to an officer familiar with the development. The CID interrogated prime accused in the bitcoin scam Sri Krishna Ramesh to find out role of CCB officers in the scam. The alleged Bitcoin scam came to light after …

While high-profile hacker Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki may have been part of an international bitcoin theft chain, the Bengaluru police has done little to recover the cyber-loot. This is what the scant forensic evidence attached to Central Crime Branch’s chargesheet in the drugs case against the 25-year-old, has revealed. As per forensic evidence submitted by both Unocoin and Group Cyber …