Confirming the China connection, superintendent of police, CID-cybercrime, MD Sharath, said: “Operations of the companies which were raided are controlled from China. This includes handling of the hacked mobile phones’ data.”
BENGALURU: Criminal Investigation Department sleuths probing the alleged data theft by instant loan apps said they have sufficient circumstantial and scientific evidence to link the scam to China.
According to the officers, the application server is based in China, the dashboard accessed through the app is located in the neighboring country, and directors of three of the four companies recently raided by CID are also from there.
Confirming the China connection, superintendent of police, CID-cybercrime, MD Sharath, said: “Operations of the companies which were raided are controlled from China. This includes handling of the hacked mobile phones’ data.”
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The probe comes in the wake of complainants alleging their details were stolen and leaked by firms running instant loan apps. Using the stolen data, the accused would threaten the customers with dire consequences, including rape. In many cases, they created new WhatsApp groups using the victim’s phone book and sent lewd messages to the members.
Earlier this week, CID police had raided four companies in Bengaluru — Mad Elephant Technologies, Borayanxy Technologies, Profitise Technologies, and Wizzpro Solutions — and arrested two people, including a Chief Financial Officer and a human resource manager. Alerted about the gravity of the scam by CID, officials from Intelligence Bureau have collected documents from the arrested duo and are questioning them.
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Explaining the Chinese link, an investigating officer from CID said: “The director of Borayanxy Technologies Pvt Ltd is also the owner and director of the Chinese company Honghu Information Technologies Pvt Ltd. Mad Elephant is a fully owned subsidiary of a company called Rumingtech Pvt Ltd, one of whose owners is a Chinese citizen identified as Yanpeng Qu,” he said.
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