Supriya Sule files complain with EC against former IPS Ravindranath Patil over crypto misappropriation claims

Published On : 2024-11-20T05:02:56+0530 [ IST ] | Author : Mayur_Tembhare
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Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) Member of Parliament Supriya Sule Supriya Sulehas submitted a cybercrime complaint to the Election Commission of India after being accused of using bitcoin to finance the currentMaharashtra Assembly elections.

"Familiar tactics of spreading false information to manipulate the righteous voters are being resorted to a night before the polling day. We have filed a criminal complaint to the Hon'ble ECI & the Cyber Crime

The intent and mala fide actors behind it are amply evident condemn worthy that such practices are taking place in a healthy democracy guided by the Constitution of India said Sule while posting a copy

In a press conference the BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi said that an accused dealer contacts a former police officer who has been jailed earlier due to some allegations and tells him that he wants to do some transactions of bitcoin in cash.

Then he directly called out Congress saying: "Now we want to ask 5 questions to the Congress Party. One, are you involved in the bitcoin transaction? Second, are you in contact with this person named Gaurav Gupta or Mehta? Third, the chats are yours (of your leaders) or not? Fourth

This comes as Ravindranath Patil former Pune IPS officer levelled the accusations against Supriya Sule and Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole claiming they misused bitcoins from a 2018 Cryptocurrency Fraud

In his statement to ANI Patil implicated Amitabh Gupta former Police Commissioner of Pune and Bhagyashri Nautake former Deputy Commissioner handling Cyber Crime Investigations in the alleged bitcoin misappropriation scheme benefiting the political leaders.

My company called me as a cryptocurrency expert to investigate a case in 2018. I was arrested in that case in 2022 under allegations of fraud. I spent 14 months in jail after a trial. During that time I was wondering what had happened, what the case was and why was I trapped.

In 2018, when Amit Bharadwaj was arrested he had a cryptocurrency hardware wallet... That wallet was replaced by the then Commissioner Amitabh Gupta and another wallet was kept. We were arrested but the real perpetrators were Amitabh Gupta and his team. He took two people's names one is Supriya Sule and

Patil further revealed that he possesses voice recordings from Gaurav Mehta and said: "Supriya Sule has sent three voice note messages in which she is heard asking Gaurav to encash bitcoins as the funds are needed for the elections. She is also heard assuring him not to worry about the

He further said that in the Maharashtra Assembly elections too the same bitcoin money is being used. On the direction of Amitabh Gupta he (Gaurav Mehta) went to Dubai multiple times and converted the bitcoin into cash. And that cash is being used in Maharash

Patil also claims that recordings exist of Amitabh Gupta giving instructions to Gaurav to cash out bitcoins. "He sent me more recordings where Amitabh Gupta was asking for Rs. 50 crores... He sent me a voice note he sent to Amitabh Gupta saying that they had made 4 crypto wallets under the names of Patil and Ghode

Patil received this information from a whistle-blower who participated in investigating the 2018 Cryptocurrency Fraud Case. He asserts that Gaurav Mehta currently controls misappropriated bitcoins worth hundreds of crores of

Source : Reporters From Sunrise Chronicles

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