Notice (8): Trying to access array offset on value of type null [APP/View/Articles/view.ctp, line 115]
Notice (8): Trying to access array offset on value of type null [APP/View/Articles/view.ctp, line 115]
Notice (8): Trying to access array offset on value of type null [APP/View/Articles/view.ctp, line 116]

CBI Warns against Illegal Online Businesses involving Cryptocurrency   

  2 min 34 sec to read
CBI Warns against Illegal Online Businesses involving Cryptocurrency   
Notice (8): Undefined index: caption [APP/View/Articles/view.ctp, line 241]

February 14: The Central Investigation Bureau (CBI) of Nepal Police has warned the public not to get involved in illegal online business involving cryptocurrency, hyper fund and digital networking among others.   

Issuing a notice on Sunday, the CBI stated that it is minutely monitoring such businesses which is banned in the country. The CBI said that investigation has been conducted against those involved in such illegal business and actions are also being taken.     

Urging one and all not to get involved in the transaction of such businesses, the CBI shared that online transaction under cryptocurrency and digital networking business have been declared illegal recently.    

CBI has also requested the public to inform the police if they find anyone involved in running such illegal business.   

Prior to this, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) had recently termed networking business illegal and had also urged the general public to remain cautious about transactions involving cryptocurrency.

The central bank said that such transactions were not only vulnerable to the country's economy but also for the investors.  

According to the NRB, virtual currency lacks ‘legal tender status’ and ‘state backing’ and is considered as ‘speculative assets’.

Similarly, networking business, according to the NRB, involves pyramid scheme which has high chances of customers being duped.

Use of cryptocurrency could lead to illegal activities, especially forgery and tax evasion and the networking marketing is also illegal economic act leading to negative impact on revenue collection, the central bank stated.  (With inputs from RSS)  

 

 

 

Deprecated (16384): Using key `action` is deprecated, use `url` directly instead. [CORE/Cake/View/Helper/FormHelper.php, line 383]
No comments yet. Be the first one to comment.