Paridhi Arya
Published on June 7, 2022 at 17:26 IST
In the Court of Magistrate Pune 4,400 page charge sheet was filed by Cyber Crime Cell of Pune against two cyber experts who assisted Special Investigation Task (SIT) in 2018 in multimillion dollar Bitcoin Ponzi ase.
Investigating Officer Inspector Ankush Chintamani filed charge sheet. Pankaj Ghode and Ravindranath Patil are charged for diverting the 237 units of Bitcoins into their wallet from the wallet of the accused of 2018 case.
The Cyber Forensic Team investigated this case under the leadership of Deputy Commissioner of Police Bhagyashree Navatake .
In 2018, two accused helped the Police to seize approximately 242 Bitcoins, 452 bitcoin cash units and Ethereum 94 units.
Patil was ex-IPS officer who left service just after two years of appointment and then helped agencies to solve case related to cyber crime. Patil and Ghode are in Yerawada Central Jail.
The wife and brother of Patil was also booked but not charged under charge sheet. The 34 Bitcoin of worth six crore rupees was found from their wallet.
The Police informed that there is difference of 900 units of Bitcoin between the actual units of Bitcoins recovered and unit reported by them to the Police in 2018 case.
ED has asked for the information of this case from Pune Police so that they can also probe the money laundering against Patil and Gode.
In 2018, Amit Bharadwaj and Vivek Bharadwaj for cheating people by investing their money in crypto currency in a promise of higher returns will be provided to them. The cases were filed across India against them