Probe against gaming app: ED freezes Bitcoins worth Rs 7 crore

THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate (ED) has frozen Bitcoins worth Rs 7.12 crore and seized Rs 1.65 crore cash as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation against the promoter of a Kolkata-based mobile gaming app that is alleged to have cheated a number of innocent people.

The action has been taken against the app called E-Nuggets and its promoter Aamir Khan. “The ED carried out a search operation at two premises in Kolkata, leading to the seizure of Rs 1.65 crore cash and freezing of 44.5 Bitcoin (equivalent to Rs 7.12 crore as per market exchange rates) and other… documents,” the ED said in a statement.