ED freezes 150.22 Bitcoins worth Rs 22.82 crore in gaming app fraud case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said that it carried out a search operation on Binance’s crypto exchange, which led to the freezing of 150.22 bitcoins, equivalent to $24,86,693.73 (Rs 22.82 crore), with regard to its ongoing probe into a financial fraud by a gaming application named E-Nuggets.

The instant case was registered on the basis of an FIR filed under various sections of the IPC by the Park Street police station in Kolkata against Aamir Khan and others.

The FIR was filed based on a complaint by Federal Bank authorities in the court of the Metropolitan Magistrate in Kolkata.