Chinese Loan App
Delhi Police busts extortion racket linked to Chinese loan app, 4 held
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has busted an extortion racket that was being run in collusion with a Chinese loan app and arrested four people.
The accused, identified as Anil (35), is the mastermind of the racket. Other accused -- Alok Sharma (24), Avnish (22) and Kannan (35) were arrested from Delhi.
Conniving with the Chinese loan app, the firms were conducting recovery in India and extorting huge money from victims.
The accused transferred Rs 10 crore to two Chinese people - Albert and Trey and got about Rs 3 crore as commission since March last year.
They communicated through a multilingual Ding Talk app, said Brijendra Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Outer North district, Delhi.
About 134 women and 15 male staff threatened people using obscene and morphed photographs to extort money.
They have been served notices under Section 41.1 (A) CrPC.
A complaint was lodged on NCRP Portal on July 14 and earlier on May 28 by Himanshu Goel, a resident of Delhi's Narela area.
On this basis, a case under Section 420 IPC at Cyber Cell Police Station was registered and investigation was taken up. Later on, Sections 384 and 120 B of IPC were added in this case.
The complainant alleged that he was lured by an advertisement on social media that promised hassle-free loan issue of Rs 50,000.
He downloaded a loan app named 'on stream'. He also allowed the app to access his contact, gallery and other information on his phone.
However, in the end, he was only granted a loan of Rs 6870. He alleged that the accused began harassing him using his contacts and photographs in the gallery of his mobile.
Till now, the victim has paid Rs 1 lakh but the company was still sending him derogatory messages demanding more.
(With UNI inputs)
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