Shimla: After the location of Rs-2,500-crore cryptocurrency scam’s alleged kingpin Subhash Sharma has come to be in Dubai, the Himachal Pradesh cops have written to multiple central agencies for a robust legal framework to control these cases.They have written to the Intelligence Bureau director, Central Board of Direct Taxes chairperson, Union home secretary, national security adviser, and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director. Sharma is from Sarkaghat in Mandi district and his UAE visa has expired, which makes him an overstayer. There is a lookout circular against him, so he can be arrested whenever he returns to India.After a special investigation team (SIT) led by deputy inspector general (Dharamshala northern range) Abhishek Dullar has estimated the scam’s size, DGP Sanjay Kundu has written to IB chief Tapan Kumar Deka; CBDT head Nitin Gupta, Union home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla, NSA Ajit Doval, and CBI director Praveen Sood, requesting them to issue an advisory to the police departments and law enforcement agencies of every state about handling cryptocurrency scams.The DGP wants this advisory to contain detailed guidelines, best procedures, and strategies for the investigation and processing of these cases. He expects help from the central agencies for bringing the scamsters to justice. In the Rs-2,500-crore cryptocurrency fraud case, the SIT has, so far, arrested 18 people, including four cops, one of whom is a woman constable and another a forest guard.Some 5,000-odd government employees, including cops in Himachal Pradesh, besides those compensated for their land that was acquired for a four-lane projects, have invested hugely in cryptocurrency. The SIT seized 80 mobile phones and traced the website from which the scam had originated. Some of the cops had even quit their jobs to make easy money. Raising the issue in the assembly’s monsoon session, Dehra’s independent legislator, Hoshyar Singh, had claimed the scam’s size to be Rs 200 crore in Hamirpur, Rs 100 crore in Una, and Rs 250 crore in Kangra. After this, deputy chief minister Mukesh Agnihotri had declared forming the SIT. On September 26, this 13-members team started examining if the case expanded beyond HP. tnnWe also published the following articles recently
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