Delhi: ED arrests 2 Chinese nationals involved in hawala business

- Hawala racket run by fake companies: Use of hawala money in espionage

New delhi date. 17 January 2021, Sunday

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday arrested two Chinese nationals on money laundering charges. The two Chinese nationals were staying in Delhi and running a big hawala racket for Chinese companies. They were causing crores of rupees to the Government of India.

These Chinese nationals are named after Charlie Peng and Carter. The Income Tax Department also raided several of Charlie Peng's locations last year. Subsequently, an FIR was recently lodged against Charlie Peng by the Special Cell of Delhi Police.

The ED filed a money laundering case against Charlie in August. For so long the ED had been investigating all of Charlie Peng's suspicious transactions. The investigation also revealed that Charlie Peng was not only operating a hawala racket in India but was also spying on the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

Charlie Peng was running a hawala network by creating fake companies. A company called Charlie Invin Logistics India Pvt Ltd was registered at Perm Spring Plaza, Sector 59 Golf Course Road, Gurugram, Cyber ​​City, Delhi NRC. But according to the plaza manager, there was no Chinese company here. In this way Charlie was running money transactions by running shell companies through several fake addresses.

Investigating agencies questioned Charlie about the locations in Delhi and Gurugram on the basis of which he had created his Aadhaar card and registered his fake companies in India.

According to Delhi Police, the money demanded by Charlie Peng through hawala was given to Tibetans and it is suspected that he used it to carry out espionage operations. According to sources in the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, the Income-tax department has named about 24 Tibetans, some of whom are from Delhi and the rest from South India. Charlie Peng has also done rupee transactions with them.