Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Jan 25: The Delhi Police Special Cell’s Cyber Crime Unit claimed to have captured a group of con artists who reportedly stole bitcoin from a Delhi-based businessman and transferred the funds to the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ armed wing.
The businessman reported the fraudulent transfer to a police station in Paschim Vihar in 2019 and it is today worth at Rs. 4 crore. It involved digital cash in the form of Bitcoin, Ether, and a plethora of other cryptocurrencies.
According to the information, 6.7 Bitcoins, 9.79 Ethers, and 2.44 Bitcoin Cash were transferred to three accounts. Two Bitcoins were sent to six different accounts, including one with the address ‘Al-QassamBrigades.’
“The cryptocurrencies were routed through various wallets and landed in the suspected wallets. We discovered that one of the wallets, that belongs to the Palestinian origination, has been seized by Israeli authorities for counter-terror financing,” said KPS Malhotra, DCP (Cyber Cell) to PTI.
“The investigation conducted by the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Ops (IFSO) unit of Delhi Police Special Cell so far has established that the Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies were fraudulently transferred from the wallet of the businessman,” he added.
The cryptocurrency were channelled through numerous wallets, according to Malhotra, and eventually ended up in the suspects’ wallets. He continued, “It was also uncovered that one of the Palestinian organization’s wallets had been seized by Israeli officials for being involved in terror financing.”
According to the authorities, some of the money was transferred to other wallets based in Giza, Egypt, and Ramallah, Palestine. According to police, they have retrieved information about these accounts, some of which were used to fund terror operations and others for child pornography.
