{"id":7160,"date":"2019-06-27T09:48:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T04:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2019-06-27T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T06:34:04","slug":"bitcoin-fraud-couple-arrested-by-ats-took-victims-on-free-thai-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinkcitypost.com\/bitcoin-fraud-couple-arrested-by-ats-took-victims-on-free-thai-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin fraud: Couple arrested by ATS lured victims with free Thai tours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaipur: Four persons who were arrested by Rajasthan anti-terrorist squad (ATS) in connection with the Bitcoin fraud amounting to crores of rupees had taken hundreds of people on free tours of Thailand and Bali and lured them into investing in the crypto currency. Most of the victims invested during demonetisation last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ATS had arrested Vishal Gupta, Vikas Choudhary, Shilpa\nSharma and Mahesh Kumar in connection with the fraud. While Vishal is a\nresident of Jaipur, Vikas and Shilpa belong to Delhi. Mahesh hails from\nGhaziabad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shilpa and Vikas used to work at a Bitcoin investment\ncompany in Delhi where they came to know about Bitcoin investment and hatched\nthe plan of duping gullible people. Vishal Gupta himself had been a victim of\nthe fraud, but the couple lured him into joining their gang and entrusted him\nwith the task of spreading their network in Rajasthan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They allegedly made a fake Bitcoin investment portal and\ncreated accounts of the investors. The amount invested by people would show\nthere, but no investment was made by the gang members, according to ATS\nofficials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey took gullible investors on free tours of Thailand and\nBali where they convinced them to invest in Bitcoin. And a lot of people invested\ncrores of rupees after returning to India,\u201d said a senior police officer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has come up during preliminary investigation that at\nleast 30 people from Rajasthan had visited Thailand and then invested in\nBitcoin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaipur: Four persons who were arrested by Rajasthan anti-terrorist squad (ATS) in connection with the Bitcoin fraud amounting to crores of rupees had taken hundreds of people on free tours of Thailand and Bali and lured them into investing in the crypto currency. Most of the victims invested during demonetisation last year. 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