Now, in another exclusive, one of his main partners in crime, Robin Khandelwal’s account of his escapades with Sriki, will be detailed in this story.
We were the ones who referred the case to ED, CBI and Interpol.
In the charge sheet filed before the first additional chief metropolitan magistrate court, Robin Khandelwal plays an important role in the Bitcoin transaction process.
In 2016, he began a Bitcoin trading service called Robin Online Services and contacted investors through various portals.
Sriki introduced himself under the pseudonym ‘Dariel Herman’ and offered to sell 900 Bitcoins available with him, when the value of each coin ranged from Rs 1.3 lakh to Rs 4 lakh.Robin agreed and sold the coins in phases and transferred the amount to accounts specified by Sriki.
ALSO READ: 1st person to crack Bitfinex, multiple hacking scams: Karnataka hacker’s tell-all statement to police | ExclusiveIt was in 2018 when they both met face to face.
According to the charge sheet, when Robin was at ITC Gardenia Hotel, Sriki introduced him to his friends Akeeb, Sonu, Soumya, Mohammed Nalapad and Nafi Mohammed Nasser.An FIR was registered against Nalapad after his associates brutally assaulted 24-year-old Vidwath at Farzi Cafe in UB City.
Speaking to India Today TV, Mohammed Nalapad said, “If I say l do not know him, it’s a lie.
He said he would stay at Robin’s place.It was later that Robin learnt that Sriki was involved in the pub brawl case in Bengaluru and was an accused along with Mohammad Nalapad who was in jail.
Sriki and a few others decided to head to Andhra Pradesh for a while.In August 2018, Robin was asked by Sriki to deposit 30 Bitcoins in his electronic wallet since he needed money.
They stayed in Goa for 10 days and then Robin went back to Kolkata.In 2019, Sriki again called Robin to come over to Goa and said that he had hacked into Coineal Etherium coin exchange and sent 450 coins and 60,000 worth USDT to Robin’s wallet.
It was here that Sriki hacked the GGPoker gaming site and the entire group took part in this crime.Now when it came to sharing the spoils, Sriki was not ready to do so and the group quarrelled.
3, 48, 62, 590 to multiple accounts Sriki had given him.Another individual from Hyderabad, identified as Abishek Jain, converted the Bitcoins for Sriki into cash and sent Rs.