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“The market is too messy and I have to raise the threshold.” Chen Pin of Indian payment company Cashfree (pseudonym) exclaimed. Recently, Cashfree checked the accounts of all game companies on the platform and raised the deposit threshold for real gold chess and card companies to 2.5 million rupees (about 23 Ten thousand yuan).
Chen Pin was so cautious because on August 11, Indian law enforcement agencies raided Chinese companies and investigated and dealt with suspected money laundering and hawala transactions in Delhi, Gurgaon and other places.(Informal remittance system) Chinese company. According to Indian media reports, the scale of these companies’ online money laundering in India exceeded 100 billion rupees(about 930 million yuan), and two Chinese were arrested .
Industry insiders said that online money laundering is inseparable from payment companies. The violating company will register an e-commerce or game shell company, and open an account in the payment company to collect payment. Recently, payment companies have found that violations have increased, and they have increased risk control screening and closed non-compliant accounts. Some Indian real gold game practitioners found that their payment channels had problems, and even their accounts were shut down.
According to Zhixiang.com, most companies that have problems with payment channels are companies operating online gambling or unlicensed cash loan companies. At present, many payment providers have increased their review to prevent black and gray companies from operating on their platforms.
1. The Chinese involved in the case: Using a fake passport, he was arrested twice in India
On the morning of the 12th, independent journalist Aditya Raj Kaul said on Twitter that the Indian income tax department had investigated and dealt with a group of Chinese companies that used the Hawala network to launder money, and searched 21 locations in Delhi, Gazabad and Gurgaon. Arrested Charlie Pang(real name: Luo Sang) who used a fake Indian passport.