Bengaluru: denied the accusation of the MLA Priyank Kharge Congress, the Office of the City Police Commissioner on Thursday said Bitcoin was confiscated during an investigation into a hacking case involving the Srikrishna R and the other was safe in the police wallet.
On Wednesday, Kharge said 0.08 Bitcoin accused of defendant Robin Khandelawala by Central Crime Branch (CCB) Sleuth had vanished from the police wallet where they had been moved.
Kharge also objected to the police who took technical assistance from Unocoin, a Bitcoin exchange company, during the investigation because it had approached the police said their website was hacked.
“This is truly a false claim.
We clarified that 0.08 Bitcoin along with three cryptocurrency (worth Rs 2.5 lakh) was confiscated from the account of Robin Khandelawala and transferred to the police wallet.
The same thing was intimized to court.
This fact has been mentioned Obviously the court together with Chargesheet.
The currency is placed safely in the police wallet under the court’s knowledge, “he said.
It was stated even though the Unocoin account was hacked for a small number, nothing was detrimental to companies that made them not qualify to help in the probe.
“The company is a victim in this case, not the defendant.
So, there is no conflict of interest,” police added.
TNN.