In my country our prime minister announced PM Kisan Scheme to directly benefit the farmers and the people who are associated with agriculture. This has been distributed in three installments directly to the beneficiary's bank account. Government employees are responsible for it, but to ease it on covid lockdown relaxations were given on applications and approval. This is being used by the brokers and has scammed 110 crore rupees. Now investigation has been started and 32 crore rupees have been retrieved directly from the banks.
My question, if this has been done through bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency what'll be the remedy. Here atleast some amount is being recovered, as the transactions were made through a centralised banking services. This way does governments encourage the usage of cryptocurrencies in the future on official needs.
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The Indian Express This is an unfortunate thing to happen in a country when government is trying to ensure that the economy is bouncing back but now the corrupted individuals have find their ways to penetrate the system and divert the funds for their own personal use.
Now to the question about if it were to be in a situation of bitcoin while the amount cannot be recovered like the way they can from bank accounts but that would not have been needed in the first place because on the blockchain, everyone can see the source of the money and where its going to settle and whoever or whatever its being used for. In that case, on verifying the identity of the farmer and establishing their wallet addresses then it can go directly to their wallets and except the sender moves it to another account, we all know its not reversible which narrow down the culprits.