Notably, on August 2, 2022, ED in their press release said that the agency conducted raids on one of the directors, and froze their bank balances to the tune of INR 64.67 crore. Following the raids, Shetty and CZ took to Twitter to blame each other for the alleged discrepancies, and ownership dispute.
After Nischal Shetty on his official Twitter account claimed that WazirX is owned by crypto exchange Binance, CZ responded with a series of tweets asserting that Binance never acquired WazirX as their request to transfer system source code, deployment, and operations were denied by WazirX. Zhao tweeted,
"We asked for transferring of WazirX system source code, deployment, operations, as recently as Feb this year. This was refused by WazirX."
Reacting to Shetty's Tweet which claimed that Binance has root access to the AWS servers, and owns all the crypto assets and profits generated from them, CZ revealed that his trading exchange does not have any control over the systems of WazirX by tweeting,
"Binance does not have control on their systems."
Taking a jibe at WazirX, he went on to say that the Indian crypto exchange was not cooperating with Binance on the acquisition and blamed them for also not cooperating with the ED.