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India’s financial crimes watchdog raids crypto exchanges CoinDCX and Delta over alleged illegal cross-border trades
What CoinDesk reports, why it matters and what remains unconfirmed.
PolicyBy Omkar Godbole at CoinDesk

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What CoinDesk reports
The Enforcement Directorate alleged illegal cross-border flows that violated India's foreign exchange laws.
The immediate significance
The report identifies a policy development, but the available information does not provide enough matched evidence for a more specific impact judgment. That assessment remains open.
Decrypt has also published a related report, providing another attributed account to compare without treating repetition as proof.
What remains unknown
- No matched primary document independently supporting the central claim is linked to this page.
Developing Across Sources
How the story developed
CoinDesk and Decrypt are reporting related developments. Reports are shown in publication order; separate coverage is not independent confirmation.
CoinDeskCurrent briefing India’s financial crimes watchdog raids crypto exchanges CoinDCX and Delta over alleged illegal cross-border trades
The Enforcement Directorate alleged illegal cross-border flows that violated India's foreign exchange laws.
Decrypt India's Financial Crimes Agency Searches CoinDCX, Delta Exchange Over Offshore Trades
The Enforcement Directorate alleges the exchanges routed Indian users' trades to Binance, Bybit and others via a Costa Rican shell entity.
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