A Chinese "spy" and a thousand crore hawala racket
New Delhi: Post the massive crackdown by the Income Tax department on Chinese nationals and their entitites which were indulging in money laundering, a Chinese national , suspected to be a spy, Lou Sang is now under the scanner of multiple probe agencies.
But this is not the first time Lou Sang is under investigation.
Sources say Lou Sang, son of Thung Ga is native of Cheng Guan Ju, Lhasa province, Tibet had successfully managed to the assumed Indian identity and was controlling finances of several Chinese firms operating in the National Capital Region.
"Based on the credible information that few Chinese individuals and their Indian associates were involved in money laundering and hawala transactions through series of shell entities, a search action was mounted at various premises of these Chinese entities, their close confederates and couple of bank employees," said the Income Tax in a statement issued on Tuesday.
When arrested, security agencies seized two fake Aadhar cards, two forged Indian passports, a fake PAN card. Lou Sang still operates as Charlie Peng and lives in Gurugram.
Sources said he illegally entered in India from Nepal in 2014 and married a woman from north-east India.
"He was a hard nut to crack. A trained spy, he confused his interrogators. He initially claimed that he did enter illegally was trying to seek refuge because of persecution of Tibetans by Chinese authorities," recalled an official who questioned him in 2018.
Later he told us that he had a criminal record was in jail for years and Chinese authorities forced him to become a spy. "He repeatedly changed his Chinese background story several times to hoodwink us. At one of point time Lou Sang claimed he is a soldier of PLA," he added.
However, what is clear is that Lou or Charlie is a trained spy. Chinese taught him how to run shell companies, made him understand intricacies of financial word and provided him finance to set up companies on India.
Luo Sang claimed that he was handling finances of Chinese entitites that sell products of e-commerce sites.
His interrogation revealed that he was given two tasks
(a) somehow try to enter the inner circle of Dalai Lama. For this he made several trips to Himachal Pradesh, Majnu ka Tila (north Delhi), Bengaluru and in the garb of meeting his wife's family trips to Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh.
(b) he also worked for Chinese embassy officials . Transferred money and arranged logistics for them like providing cars and arranging their travel.
In September 2018, raids were carried out at his residence in Gurugram, which led to recovery of several forged Indian identity cards including
(a) Aadhar Card number 4634 6397 3285 in the name of Charlie Peng son of Dhondup Peng
Address Flat no. B-206, NTPC Apartment, Plot no. 10, Sector 19 Dwarka, West Delhi, Delhi- 110075.
(b) Aadhar Card number 4634 6397 3285 in the name of Charlie Peng son of Dhondup Peng
Address House no.-20, Village – S Bualiang BPO – Tollen, Churachandpur North Sub-Div., Churachandpur, Manipur-795128
(c) PAN Card number EIYPP2819E in the name of Charlie Peng son of Dhondup Peng.
(d) Passport number S 1291320 in the name of Charlie Peng son of Dhondup Peng
(e) Passport No. R 9702719 in the name of Vanlalrinchhani Khawlhring
In September 2018, when Indian authorities contacted Chinese embassy officials, they denied Lou Sang is a Chinese. "They didn't even acknowledge the official communications that were sent," said a source.
A case of impersonation and Passport Act was filed against him. A year back, Lou Sang got bail and gain set up new set of shell companies.
IT searches show that Chinese nationals including Lou Sang were operating 40 bank accounts of laundered Rs 1000 crores.
"A subsidiary of Chinese company and its related concerns have taken over Rs. 100 crores bogus advances from shell entities for opening businesses of retail showrooms in India," said the IT department.
IT has sought details of the 2018 case from the Delhi Police. Since it is a massive case of hawala, the enforcement directorate will seeking documents from the IT department.
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