An 18-year old Indian teenaged has threatened to blow up Miami International Airport (MIA) as a retaliatory move for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI’s uncooperative stance to assist him track down an american fraudster who duped him of $1,000 value of bitcoin on a preferred online forum.
Based on reports on local news outlet Hindustan Times, the unidentified 18-year old boy from Northern state Uttar Pradesh had created many calls to the FBI to lodge a complaint about a bitcoin deal that went awry. Once he felt he wasn’t going to get the assistance he required, he known as up Miami airport and threatened to blow it up. He had reportedly handed over his investment to an unidentified individual he met on an online forum, who had assured the teenager he may help him create profits through a bitcoin deal, the report had expressed.
The news outlet quoted Uttar Pradesh director general of police (DGP) OP Singh who said there were no immediate plans to arrest or reveal the culprit’s identity, as he was “was simply 18 years and 3 months old.” Not glad with the FBI’s response to his predicament, he created “five calls to Miami airport authorities, threatening to attack the airport by barging into it equipped with an AK-47 assault rifle, grenades, and a suicide belt,” the DGP added.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation had approached India’s National Investigation Agency after the teen’s decision to Miami’s airport. The boy told the police that he taken his father’s funds, who run an NGO, to invest in Bitcoins. Having earned huge profits over the previous period, he had handed his investment to a fraudster on an online forum who promised him a lot of profits, according to the reports.
The teenager has been charged below the Indian penal code and the IT Act. The Indian penal code was cuffed on him for impersonating somebody else and for issuing threats against the Miami airport, while the IT Act was for creating calls over the internet to foreign authorities.
In other connected news, a panel founded by India’s finance ministry to propose a regulative framework for cryptocurrencies is set to suggest a state-backed cryptocurrency. According to the reports, the panel will also advise the government to conduct analysis into the distributed ledger technology and how it will benefit the nation.
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