NT Reporter
Panaji
The economic offence cell (EOC) of the Goa Police have registered an FIR against four people for allegedly cheating investors from Goa to the tune of Rs 2.48 crore by inducing them to invest in an unregulated deposit investment scheme ‘Oris coin’, a suspected cryptocurrency scam.
The police said the FIR has been registered against Tarun Trikha and Rahul Khurana, both from New Delhi, and Ravi Thakur and Rahul Jadhav, both from Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra.
The FIR was registered based on the complaint filed by Nilesh Karbotkar from Mayem, Bicholim.
Referring to the complaint, the police said the cheating occurred from December 1, 2022 to January 1, 2025 when the accused hatched a criminal conspiracy and created the unregulated deposit investment scheme through an online platform called ‘Oris Coin’.
The accused travelled to various places across Goa to promote the scheme, touting the investment plans to gullible people. The police said the accused induced the investors into investing in the unregulated deposit investment scheme on the promise of high returns.
The investors invested their hard-earned money through cash and online mode in the said scheme.
However, the accused failed to return the maturity amount, thereby cheating the complainant and other investors to the tune of Rs 2,48,00,000.
The FIR has been filed under sections 316(2),316(5),318,61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, sections 3 and 5 of the Goa Protection of Interests of Depositors (Financial Establishment) Act, 1999 and also under sections 21, 23 under the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Act, 2019.
