By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch on Friday arrested the director of Good Start Business Services Private Limited Nitin Mallik from New Delhi for his alleged involvement in operating pretend mortgage functions with the assistance of some Chinese nationals.
A local of Odisha, Shakti Prasad Dash, had lodged a grievance within the EOW alleging harassment by the officers of digital mortgage app – Kredit Gold.
After downloading Kredit Gold, the complainant had obtained Rs 9,000 mortgage quantity.
The employees of the mortgage app requested Dash to return Rs 15,000 simply 4 days after offering him the mortgage.
He began receiving calls and messages from totally different cell phone numbers which had been reportedly linked to Good Start Business Services.
The callers harassed and tried to extort cash from the complainant. EOW’s investigation revealed that Good Start is just not registered as a non-banking monetary firm and it was illegally working as a digital lender via numerous mortgage functions together with Kredit Gold.
Kredit Gold has been downloaded a couple of lakh instances. He was reportedly in common contact with three Chinese nationals and getting a lump sum quantity from them in the direction of his wage for lending/recovering cash via the pretend mortgage apps.
The accused has cheated a number of prospects in Odisha and different states.
“Various incriminating materials like copies of passports of the Chinese nationals, WhatsApp chats and e-mails have been seized from Mallik. Besides, agreements between Chinese firms and telecom service providers in the country were also seized from him,” stated an EOW officer.
The accused was needed by totally different regulation enforcement companies together with Mumbai Police, he added.
On the request of EOW, the Bureau of Immigration had just lately issued a lookout round in opposition to Liu Yi, a Chinese nationwide and one of many fundamental accused within the cellular mortgage app rip-off.
BHUBANESWAR: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Crime Branch on Friday arrested the director of Good Start Business Services Private Limited Nitin Mallik from New Delhi for his alleged involvement in operating pretend mortgage functions with the assistance of some Chinese nationals.
A local of Odisha, Shakti Prasad Dash, had lodged a grievance within the EOW alleging harassment by the officers of digital mortgage app – Kredit Gold.
After downloading Kredit Gold, the complainant had obtained Rs 9,000 mortgage quantity.
The employees of the mortgage app requested Dash to return Rs 15,000 simply 4 days after offering him the mortgage.
He began receiving calls and messages from totally different cell phone numbers which had been reportedly linked to Good Start Business Services.
The callers harassed and tried to extort cash from the complainant. EOW’s investigation revealed that Good Start is just not registered as a non-banking monetary firm and it was illegally working as a digital lender via numerous mortgage functions together with Kredit Gold.
Kredit Gold has been downloaded a couple of lakh instances. He was reportedly in common contact with three Chinese nationals and getting a lump sum quantity from them in the direction of his wage for lending/recovering cash via the pretend mortgage apps.
The accused has cheated a number of prospects in Odisha and different states.
“Various incriminating materials like copies of passports of the Chinese nationals, WhatsApp chats and e-mails have been seized from Mallik. Besides, agreements between Chinese firms and telecom service providers in the country were also seized from him,” stated an EOW officer.
The accused was needed by totally different regulation enforcement companies together with Mumbai Police, he added.
On the request of EOW, the Bureau of Immigration had just lately issued a lookout round in opposition to Liu Yi, a Chinese nationwide and one of many fundamental accused within the cellular mortgage app rip-off.