The founders of a cryptocurrency exchange in Bengaluru, whose services were utilised by the city police in 2021 to validate the disappearance of 31 Bitcoins transferred to a police wallet after they were seized from international hacker Srikrishna Ramesh, alias Sriki, have sought anticipatory bail.
Sathvik V and Harish B V, the founders of Unocoin Technologies Pvt Ltd, one of the first Bitcoin exchanges in India, have sought anticipatory bail in the Bitcoin case involving Sriki after a Special Investigation Team of the Karnataka Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested Santhosh Kumar K S, CEO, Group Cyber ID (GCID) Technologies, and police inspector Prashanth Babu, the former head of the Bengaluru city police technical cell, in the Bitcoin scam case on January 25.
Santhosh Kumar is accused of illegally accessing the crypto wallet of Robin Khandelwal, an associate and accountant of Sriki, during the probe of the hacking cases…
