Vijay Zol – the previous captain of the nation’s U-19 cricket crew – has been accused of kidnapping, extortion and intimidation by a cryptocurrency funding supervisor, in line with a report by Hindustan Occasions’ Marathi information web site. The report stated police in Maharashtra’s Jalna had filed a case towards 15 individuals, together with Zol, who can also be the son-in-law of a neighborhood chief, on Tuesday.
In response to the Marathi Hindustan Occasions report, Zol – additionally son-in-law of Arjun Khotkar, a Shiv Sena chief with Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde’s faction – is accused of threatening entrepreneur Kiran Kharat with a pistol over a cryptocurrency transaction.
In response to the report, Kharat, the complainant, claims that Zol made a cryptocurrency funding, however when the worth dropped, he and his brother got here residence and threatened to kill him.
Zol has not reacted to the incident up to now.
The funding supervisor is, nevertheless, additionally charged with fraud after a person filed a grievance accusing him of dishonest different traders. The complainant claims that Kharat and his spouse defrauded him of ₹12.5 lakhs by luring him with the promise of massive returns.
A fraud grievance was filed towards the Kharats at one other police station in Jalna.
Instances regarding cryptocurrency fraud are sadly changing into frequent. Final week police in Khandeshwar unearthed a rip-off stated to be price ₹30 crore. The gang promoted the scheme of an organization known as Coin Zx by holding seminars in numerous places.
Reserve Financial institution of India governor Shaktikanta Das has known as for a ban on cryptocurrencies, calling them ‘nothing however playing’ and saying ‘perceived worth is nothing however make-believe’.