Hard disk turned key to open Chennai link to HK bank accounts
The New Indian Express|January 04, 2025
FIVE years after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) began investigating an international Trade Based Money Laundering (TBML) scam orchestrated from Chennai, the recovery of a hard disc from a house in north Chennai in 2021 led to the discovery that the foreign bank accounts receiving the laundered money were being operated from the city.
SIDDHARTH PRABHAKAR
Hard disk turned key to open Chennai link to HK bank accounts

In September 2024, the owner of the house, Abdul Haleem, became the seventh person convicted in the scam by a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Chennai. This was the sixth conviction in the investigations where at least ₹120 crore in US Dollars was found to have been laundered to Hong Kong since 2016 through bank accounts of multiple shell companies in Chennai as payments for faked import of electronics. The accounts in Indian Bank and Syndicate Bank had been created using forged documents by hawala operators and impersonators acting as agents for the handlers of the scam.

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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

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