Bhubaneswar: During an investigation of an OTP sharing scam involving Pakistani intelligence operatives, the Special Task Force (STF) has found that the two accused – 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, the STF stated.
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 of trade in the account was more than Rs 1 crore.
The account had redflag areas 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 was referred by a dubious person on the Crypto platform, having a referral history of thousands of people. The said matter is under investigation, the STF added.
Investigations revealed that Saroj had signed in a leading crypto exchange using e-mail address. His User ID is linked with two saving Bank accounts number and two UPIs. 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In this case too, INR was withdrawn using Crypto exchanges based outside India.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 and Saroj Kumar Nayak was blocked by STF.
