Indian National Congress Accuses BJP of Covering Up Indias Biggest Bitcoin Scam

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Randeep Singh Surjewala has questioned the alleged lack of action, claiming that the BJP is protecting certain party individuals.

Randeep Singh Surjewala, a spokesperson of the Indian National Congress (INC), has accused the Bhartiya Janta Party government of the southern state of Karnataka of covering up a bitcoin scam.

The Indian National Congress on Sat, Nov 13, 2021, called for an independent investigation to be conducted into the matter by a Supreme Court-monitored Special Investigation Team with multi-agency constituents. Congress has targeted Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai of Karnataka since he was the Home Minister when the case surfaced last year. The scam was perpetrated by a 26-year-old individual named Srikrishna Ramesh, who was arrested as part of a narcotics bust in 2019. During the investigation, the police discovered that Ramesh had hacked the Karnataka state government’s e-procurement portal and redirected $1.3 million.

He confessed to having hacked Bitfinex in 2016 and stealing 2000 bitcoin. Ramesh was arrested in Nov 2020 and was kept in prison for 100 days, without Interpol being contacted and briefed, alleges Congress. On April 24, 2021, the Commissioner of Police in Bengaluru wrote to the Interpol Liaison Officer and notified the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate.

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India is not tolerant of cryptocurrencies. This will be an excuse. They will put new bans on cryptocurrencies. Damn it. I don't want to hear FUD. My head hurts. I suffer when I hear FUD. This is nothing more than an ordinary scam. It has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies.

[TomPluz]

Just because I am in cryptocurrency does not mean that am in favor of any cover-up on an alleged scan that used Bitcoin. Heck, I really hate anyone calling anything as a Bitcoin scam because there is no such thing...what we have are scams that are using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange in the same that there is no actually dollar scam but scams that are using the dollar as the money. There should be a full-blown investigation to find out what really happened and have the perpetrators and their cohorts be brought to justice.