ED searches e wallets and IDs of Binance Crypto Exchange in E-Nuggets gaming app fraud case

New Delhi, November 12

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out a search operation on the e-wallet and user IDs of Binance Crypto Exchange in connection with the E Nuggets gaming fraud case of Kolkata. 

The agency booked Aamir Khan who launched E-Nuggets, which was designed to swindle money. 

The ‘E-Nugget’ gaming app was created by Amir Khan, whose father, Nasser Ahmed Khan is a transport businessman in Kolkata.

According to the investigators, Amir’s scam was spread across the country. It is alleged that about Rs 65 to 70 crore have been taken, of which Rs17.3 crore have so far been recovered from Amir’s house and more recoveries are underway. 

The agency has frozen 150.22 Bitcoins equivalent to Rs 22.82 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002. 

The ED conducted search operations on two premises linked with the gaming app and seized Rs 17.3 crore in cash in October. Later, Bitcoin worth Rs 13.5 crore of Binance was frozen too.

The agency also froze digital assets stored in a bank account under various provisions of the PML Act.

E-Nuggets was a gaming application that could be downloaded from the Internet. It prompts its users to keep their money in the app to get a commission on the deposit, officials said, adding the app had different games users could play on their smartphones, with real money.

The app asked people to deposit money in their app-wallet and get a certain percentage as commission. Later, the money was easily transferrable to the user’s bank account.