BENGALURU: Two persons have been arrested by South CEN Crime police recently for allegedly cheating a city based businessman of Rs 3.5 crore on the pretext of helping him invest in the cryptocurrency business.
Piyushbhai Himmatlal Soni and Rajeshbhai Dhirajlal Soni are from Gujarat. The main suspect, Kunal Anup Chandrana, is still at
large. A local court had dismissed Chandrana’s anticipatory bail plea on August 10.
Businessman Gowtham, 37, of JP Nagar, had filed a complaint on June 28. After his friend, Ramesh TV, made profits, he took interest in cryptocurrency business. Stating that he has little knowledge in the sector, Ramesh asked him to contact his friend Chandrana who reportedly was an expert.
On May 15, Gowtham transferred Rs 3.5 crore to two bank accounts provided by Chandrana to purchase cryptocurrency. But Chandrana neither arranged cryptocurrency, nor returned the money. Police gathered details of the bank accounts to which Gowtham had transferred the amount on May 15 and 17 and traced Piyushbhai and Rajeshbhai.
Chandrana filed an anticipatory bail plea before the court in the first week of August. While rejecting it on August 10, the court said the investigation officer must recover the currency and record his statement.
