Nihar Ranjan Das, Additional Chief Engineer, Planning, Monitoring, Design and Investigation, RWSS Circle, Bhubaneswar, who was arrested on October 29 in a disproportionate asset case, was on Thursday taken on remand for two days by a special investigation team comprising financial experts and technical personnel.
A special team of crypto experts from Mumbai is in Bhubaneswar and assisting Odisha Vigilance in investigating his crypto assets on various platforms. The bank transactions of Das and his family members are being investigated.
Apart from the documents of 38 crypto wallets recovered during his house search, further evidence and details of 50 more crypto wallets have been recovered by contact with various crypto exchanges and during further investigation. With this total crypto wallets unearthed so far comes to 88. These were in different exchanges like TRX-Trons, Trust wallets and PLCU etc.
All these wallets and ids were in the exclusive possession and operation of Das. During investigations so far, a total of Rs 2 crore in crypto assets has been unearthed.