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ED Ahmedabad seizes cryptocurrencies worth ₹1,646 crore, Lexus car, cash in Bitconnect fraud case

by TLAteam February 16, 2025
written by TLAteam February 16, 2025
ED Ahmedabad seizes cryptocurrencies worth ₹1,646 crore, Lexus car, cash in Bitconnect fraud case

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Ahmedabad, conducted search operations on 11/02/2025 and 15/02/2025 in the case of the Bitconnect cryptocurrency fraud, under the provisions of the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. During the search operations, proceeds of crime in the form of various cryptocurrencies worth Rs. 1646 crore (approx.) were recovered and seized. In addition to the said cryptocurrencies, Rs. 1,350,500 in cash, one Lexus car, and a number of digital devices have also been seized.

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ED initiated an investigation on the basis of FIRs registered by the CID, Crime, Police Station, Surat. During the investigation under the PMLA, it was revealed that during the period from November 2016 to January 2018, the accused persons conducted a fraudulent and unregistered offering and sale of securities in the form of investments in Bitconnect’s purported “Lending Program” from investors worldwide, including from investors located in India.

The founder of BitConnect, an unincorporated organization, established a worldwide network of promoters and rewarded them for their promotional efforts by paying them commissions. To induce investors to deposit funds in the form of cash and bitcoins into the purported lending program, BitConnect represented, among other things, that BitConnect would deploy a purported proprietary “volatility software trading bot” (the “Trading Bot”) that, they claimed, would use investor funds to generate returns as high as 40% per month, and they posted fictitious returns on the BitConnect website that amounted to, on average, 1% per day, or approximately 3,700% on an annualized basis. These claims were a sham, as the accused knew that BitConnect did not deploy investor funds for trading with its purported Trading Bot; rather, they siphoned investors’ funds off for their own benefit and their associates’ benefit by transferring those funds to digital wallet addresses controlled by them.

During the investigation, ED, Ahmedabad, examined the complex web of transactions carried out in numerous crypto wallets to unmask the origin and controllers of said crypto wallets. It was found that many transactions were carried out through the dark web to make the transactions untraceable. However, by tracking numerous web wallets and gathering ground intelligence, ED was able to zero in on the wallets and the premises where the digital devices containing said cryptocurrencies were available. Thereafter, by conducting searches, the digital devices were recovered, and said cryptocurrencies worth Rs. 1646 crore (approx.) were seized (transferred to ED’s account). In addition to the said cryptocurrencies, Rs. 1,350,500 in cash, one Lexus car, and a number of digital devices have also been seized.

Earlier, in this case, ED, Ahmedabad, had also attached movable and immovable properties to the tune of Rs. 489 crore (approx.).

It has also been gathered through online sources that foreign nationals also invested in BitConnect, and the main accused in the BitConnect case is also under investigation in the U.S.A.

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