Use of Bitcoin in Maha polls: Premises of auditing company employee searched

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted searches at the Chhattisgarh premises of an auditing company employee, allegedly linked to a political Bitcoin transactions case in Maharashtra, as part of a money laundering investigation. The house of Gaurav Mehta in Chhattisgarh’s capital city Raipur is being covered under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).