ED attaches Rs9.17cr of fintech firms under PMLA

The enforcement directorate has stated that it has attached funds of about 6.17 crore of different fintech firms in the case that involved mobile-based apps giving out loans at exorbitant interest rates to vulnerable people during the COVID-19 pandemic. A provisional order was issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The ED statement read, “These companies have been incorporated during COVID spread time at common addresses by the active involvement of some Chinese nationals in connivance with certain Indian chartered accountants, who helped in the incorporation of these companies by using KYC documents of young Indian nationals in need of money, who were made directors/shareholders in these companies, ”