Bengaluru: SIT registers FIR against CCB officers who probed Bitcoin case

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Bengaluru, August 13, 2023: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the infamous multi-crore Bitcoin scam has filed a First Information Report (FIR) against the Central Crime Branch (CCB)’s officers who had earlier investigated the case.

The FIR accused the officers of planting and tampering with evidence. South First had reported on 8 July that the prime accused, Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sikri, and CCB sleuths were under the scanner.

Incidentally, the reinvestigation into the scam was one of the poll promises the Congress had made. “Now the Congress has returned to power in Karnataka and has set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case again,” Home Minister G Parameshwara earlier said.

The FIR was filed after Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) K Ravishankar lodged a complaint with the Cottonpete police against the officers who had probed the case, Crime No 91/2020. Kempegowda Nagar police officers, too, were named in the complaint.

The CCB office falls under the jurisdiction of the Cottonpete police.