Pramesh Jain
The Enforcement Directorate officials attached cash Rs.1.44 Crore lying in the 14 bank accounts under Provision of Money Laundering Act in a cyber crime case against Nimmi Enterprises and others including 25-year-old Srikrishna,a hacker arrested by CCB in last November.
The accused, identified as SriKrishna alias Sriki is known to hack online poker games to win money and bitcoins online and use it to purchase drugs from the darknet.
The CCB arrested Srikrishna on multiple criminal charges,including hacking into private and government websites and besides peddling drugs through dark net .
He is also the prime accused in stealing Rs.11crore from the state government’s e-procurement portal in August 2019.
Enforcement Directorate initiated money laundering investigation on the basis of
FIR filed by Cyber Crime Police Station,CID, Bengaluru based on complaint regarding hacking and subsequent siphoning off of money deposit funds of the bidders to the tune of Rs.11.55 Crore from the bank account of E-procurement cell, Centre for E-Governance,Government of Karnataka.
During the money laundering investigation,it is revealed that Srikrishna hacked the Portal of Centre for E-Governance,Government of Karnataka and funds to the tune of Rs.10.5 Crore and Rs.1.05 Crore were diverted to bank accounts of NGO,identified as Uday Grama Vikash Sanstha,Nagpur and Proprietorship, Nimmi Enterprises,Bulandshahr,Uttar Pradesh respectively.
Further investigations revealed that Uday Grama Vikash Sanstha,Nagpur received funds into the bank accounts of various vendors and traders in the guise of business transactions without actual purchase or sale of goods by their NGO.
Similarly,Nimmi Enterprises,Bulandshahar,Uttar Pradesh layered the received funds into the bank accounts of various vendors and persons in the guise of business transactions and personal loans to show the source of the money received from the accused .
The accused SriKrishna a resident of Jayanagar. After pursuing PU in Bengaluru,completed his graduation in BSc in Computer Science from a university in Amsterdam.
With proficiency in hacking, he started hacking government websites and websites of business houses and extorted money on the pretext of releasing the hacked data.
Apart from this he along with his associates procured hydro ganja through the dark web and paid the supplier with bitcoins.
