NEW DELHI, Oct 10 (Reuters) – India’s monetary crime company, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Tuesday arrested 4 executives of Vivo Mobile, together with one Chinese nationwide, two sources with direct information of the matter informed Reuters.

Here is an inventory of the Chinese firm’s rising troubles in India:

-Earlier this month, the Indian police formally accused Vivo Mobile of serving to switch funds illegally to NewsClick, a information portal below investigation on prices of spreading Chinese propaganda. Vivo has not commented on the allegations.

-In August 2022, India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) issued a present trigger discover to the cellphone maker on allegations of evading taxes price 22.1 billion Indian rupees ($280 million). Vivo didn’t reply to requests for remark on the time.

-In July 2022, India’s monetary crime company mentioned it had blocked 119 financial institution accounts linked to Vivo’s India enterprise and its associates that have been holding 4.65 billion rupees ($58.76 million), as a part of a probe into alleged cash laundering by the corporate, owned by China’s BBK Electronics. The ban was later lifted.

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