Dhaka [Bangladesh]Oct 7 (ANI): A Chinese national among five people was arrested for illegally earning millions in Bangladesh by promoting obscenity through a mobile app, according to local media.
Live-streaming platform Bigo Bangla, whose chief executive was a Chinese national, reportedly earned a total of Tk 1.08 billion from the people, Daily Sangram reported citing the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
A case has been registered under the Money Laundering Prevention Act on behalf of five people, including Chinese national Yao Jie. Yao was charged with smuggling 79 crore taka from Bangladesh overseas, the Daily Sangram newspaper reported.
Sohel Rana, the CID(SI) sub-inspector who filed the case, according to the publication, said he had been digging into the money laundering allegations against Bigo Live for more than a year. After collecting the necessary evidence, he filed a lawsuit against Bigo’s manager on September 25.
Besides the managing director, Bigo Bangla workers Najmul Haque, Arif Hossain and a company named Monsoon Holding have been named as defendants in the case.
Meanwhile, Chinese mobile phone companies operating in India are under government surveillance. Earlier in July, the ED reportedly blocked nearly 119 Vivo’s India-linked bank accounts that held several hundred crores amid an investigation into alleged money laundering that the enforcement agency of the law called a “heinous economic crime”.
The Indian government is looking into cases of alleged tax evasion by three major Chinese mobile companies – Oppo, Vivo India and Xiaomi – and notices have been issued to them respectively. The cases brought against these companies range from allegations in what the government has called tax evasion and customs offenses to fraud and money laundering. (ANI)
