ED freezes Rs. 5.5 Crore account balance in mobile game app fraud

The Directorate General of Enforcement (ED) on Monday said it had carried out an operation to find and freeze account balances of Rs. 5.59 fraudsters by Aamir Khan and accomplices in a fraud involving the mobile gaming app E-com.

The ED yes Pick act in accordance with the provisions of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Immediate lawsuit registered on FIR basis February 15, 2021, filed under various sections of IPC by Park Street Police Department, Kolkata Police, against Aamir Khan and others, based on Federal Banking agency complaint, in court by the Metropolitan Magistrate Judge has been learned, Calcutta, ED said in a statement.

Aamir Khan, son of Nesar Ahmed Khan, launches mobile phone gaming Specifically, the application is E-Nuggets, designed with the purpose of deceiving the public. Moreover, after collecting large amounts of money from the public, suddenly, the withdrawal from the said application was stopped, for one reason or another. All data including profile information was subsequently deleted from the aforementioned application servers, ED said.

During the investigation it was discovered that many accounts (more than 300) were used for money laundering. On the basis of available information, the amount of Rs. The enforcement agency said that 5.59 coins in the balances of the aforementioned bank accounts have been frozen.

Earlier in the search operation conducted against Aamir Khan, Rs. 17.32 crore cash was found and seized from residential areas; 85.91870554 Bitcoin the equivalent of $1674255.7 (nearly Rs. 14 crore) found in the frozen Binance Exchange balance; electronic money [WRX (utility token of WazirX) and USDT (Tether)] equivalent to Rs. 47,64 lakhs have been frozen in “WazirX Account”.

In the surveys conducted under the PMLA to date, an amount of Rs. A total of 36.96 crore was seized/frozen in this case. ED said it is conducting further investigation.