Crypto crime: Pune police file charge sheet against ex-IPS officer, cyber expert

The Pune police have filed a charge sheet in a court here against a former IPS officer and a cyber expert in connection with an alleged multi-crore cryptocurrency fraud, an official said on Tuesday.

In March this year, the police here in Maharashtra had arrested former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Ravindra Patil and cyber expert Pankaj Ghode, who were roped in by the police to help them in cracking cryptocurrency fraud cases.

The duo, however, allegedly cheated the investigators by fraudulently transferring money worth crores from digital wallets to their accounts, the police had said.