Karnataka Bitcoin scam: SIT’s efforts to verify hacker Sriki’s claims draw tepid response from crypto exchanges

Efforts by a Karnataka police Special Investigation Team to seek information from 25 international cryptocurrency exchanges and gaming sites as part of its inquiry into an arrested hacker’s claims of stealing cryptocurrency worth crores of rupees have drawn a blank.

The SIT, which is investigating a multi-crore-rupee Bitcoin scam involving the alleged hacking of cryptocurrency exchanges by an international hacker, Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki, 29, had sent requests through the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty route for information on hackings of online systems to over 25 global crypto exchanges and sites over the last year.