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India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has conducted raids at 60 locations across the country, including in cities such as Delhi NCR, Pune, Nanded, Kolhapur, and Bengaluru, as part of its investigation into the $800 million (₹6,600 crore) GainBitcoin scam.
Launched in 2015 by Amit Bhardwaj (who passed away in 2022) and his brother Ajay Bhardwaj, GainBitcoin, which operated under Variabletech Pte. Ltd., promised investors lucrative returns of 10% monthly in Bitcoin (BTC) through “cloud mining contracts.”
“CBI took over these cases and conducted an omnibus and comprehensive investigation to uncover the full extent of the fraud, identify all accused parties, and trace the misappropriated funds, including international transactions,” the agency said in a Tuesday statement.
During the raids, the CBI seized incriminating digital evidence, including crypto wallets, emails, and cloud data, crucial to tracing the funds—some of which have allegedly been laundered across international borders. 0 reply
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The parents of deceased OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji have sued the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department, alleging that the real cause of his death was not suicide, but murder.
The lawsuit, filed in January, alleges that the SFPD covered up the crime, ruling it a suicide without conducting a thorough investigation.
Balaji, who had worked as a researcher at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment last November. Attorneys say Balaji’s parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, requested further investigation into his death but were told the case was already closed.
“The lawsuit demands that the city, police department, and medical examiner release public documents withheld under the Public Records Act,” Joseph Goethals, attorney for the petitioners, told Decrypt. He said that if the documents weren’t provided within 10 days, and “no valid exceptions apply, a lawsuit can compel their release. We will seek a court order to obtain them.” 0 reply
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Sony’s blockchain platform Soneium has launched its first-ever music NFT collection, featuring unreleased tracks from Tokyo-based producer NUU$HI in collaboration with Web3 label Coop Records.
The collection, hosted on Sonova, Soneium’s NFT marketplace, is priced at 0.000777 ETH ($2.11), running until the end of the month, with approximately 124 out of 999,999 NFTs minted so far.
Soneium, an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain developed by subsidiary Sony Block Solutions Labs, has positioned itself as a platform for digital content distribution, though adoption remains in its early stages.
Meanwhile, Coop Records, founded by crypto entrepreneur Cooper Turley, has previously brought over 600 songs on-chain, working with artists such as Zeds Dead, San Holo, and Barry Can’t Swim. 0 reply
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