A day after allegations of use of cryptocurrency for votes rocked NCP (SP)'s Supriya Sule and Congress state president Nana Patole, it has emerged that the complainant, retired IPS officer Ravindranath Patil, was named in the Rs6,600 crore bitcoin scam of 2018, with Delhi-based M/s Variable Tech Ltd at its centre. Patil has claimed he was falsely implicated in the case in 2022 and was in jail for 14 months.
Another person named in the current case involving Sule is Gaurav Mehta, who has been summoned by the CBI. Patil has identified Mehta as the key witness in the Variable Tech scam. Patil said that Mehta worked for a consultancy firm that assisted the Pune police in the case as a forensic expert. In Tuesday's incident involving Sule, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted a search operation on Wednesday at the Chhattisgarh premises of Mehta, an employee of the auditing firm Sarathi Associates.
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