A Pakistan-based handler, behind funnelling the digital currency bitcoins into Kashmir to foment militancy and secessionism, has been identified, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) said on Wednesday.
“The Pakistani mastermind has been comprehensively identified. His particulars, however, are being kept confidential because other agents connected with him are not alerted,” a spokesman of the SIA, an investigation set up in J&K on the lines of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), said.
The SIA has launched an investigation to unearth the racket run by the mastermind in Pakistan. “The mastermind with active support of Pakistani intelligence agencies and in connivance with proscribed terrorist organization(s) based in Pakistan has been pumping slush money to their agents in J&K for further distribution among terrorist organisation(s), secessionist(s) for fueling mass violence and terrorist activities in J&K,” the SIA spokesman said.
