Another Chinese national who established operations in India is currently abroad, police said. (Archive)
Hyderabad:
Hyderabad police arrested a Chinese national as part of their ongoing investigation into a multi-crore online loan scam that involved a large network of companies charging interest of up to 36% to their victims and then harassing their victims. borrowers.
Chinese citizen Zhu Wei (alias Lambo) was intercepted at Delhi airport on Wednesday while trying to leave the country. The 27-year-old, who belongs to China’s Jiangxi Province, was arrested today, police said.
According to the police, Wei is the chief operating officer of the illegal loan applications run by four companies: Aglow Technologies, Liufang Technologies, Nabloom Technologies and Pinprint Technologies.
A police investigation, initiated after three people, including a technician, died by suicide over alleged harassment by online loan sharks, revealed that so far these companies have conducted at least 1.4 crore of financial transactions, worth nearly Rs 21,000 crore. .
The transactions, most of which were made in the last six months through payment gateways and bank accounts linked to these companies, police said. A large number of international transactions have also been done through bitcoins, they added.
Another employee, K Nagaraju from the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, was also arrested. He allegedly played a key role in the operation of call centers which reportedly threatened, harassed and abused borrowers.
With this, the number of people arrested by the Hyderabad Police in this scam has risen to 18.
In parallel, police in Cyberabad, Rachakonda and Andhra Pradesh arrested more people in the multi-city scam, which also has fingerprints in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Bengaluru, from where the call centers were operated.
Interrogation of the defendants revealed that another Chinese nation, Yuan Yuan (aka Sissi and Jennifer), had established operations in India. He is currently abroad, police said.
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