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The Bureau Of Immigration has issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against David Gez, 32, a Hungarian national, who is the head of mega Crypto-Ponzi scam -STA Token. The circular has been issued on the request of the Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Bhubaneswar.
As per the EOW, David visited India twice on a tourist visa in 2022-23 and stayed for about 25 days. He travelled to various places like Odisha, Goa, Punjab, Jharkhand and Delhi. For the first time, he had travelled to India via USA and Turkey and via Poland for the second time.
In Odisha, he travelled to Bhubaneswar and Bhadrak. He has deleted his Instagram account after a case was registered by the EOW. “
The involvement of second foreigner, a Dutch national, in this scam is under scrutiny,” said EOW in a release.
David was issued with tourist Visa but he was indulged in business/promotion activity which is not allowed as per the rule of the Ministry Of External Affairs.
“EOW would report this fact to MEA for necessary action in addition to the legal action in the current case. However his Indian associates are still issuing Youtube Videos using his AI-generated picture and voice,” said EOW.
Earlier, the EOW had arrested two key accused- Gurtej Singh Sidhu and Nirod Das-in connection with the scam. Sidhu was arrested from Rajasthan while the Odisha head Nirod was arrested from Bhadrak.
