# Chinese loan apps: ED freezes fresh ₹9.82 cr worth funds; check list of names | Tech News (HT Tech)
> The ED has frozen ₹9.82 crore worth funds kept in merchant IDs with certain online payment gateways
# Chinese loan apps: ED freezes fresh ₹9.82 cr worth funds; check list of names
## The ED has frozen ₹9.82 crore worth funds kept in merchant IDs with certain online payment gateways
Sept 29 2022, 20:04 IST
### By PTI
The ED has frozen ₹9.82 crore worth funds kept in merchant IDs with certain online payment gateways as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation against a "Chinese-controlled" investment token app.
This is the second time that the ED has frozen funds kept in merchant IDs with certain online payment gateways.
"Various Chinese-controlled entities like Comein Network Technology Private Limited and others, in service agreements with various NBFCs (non banking financial companies) were also operating multiple suspicious loan/other apps such as Cashhome, Cashmart, Easyloan etc. and they indulge in receiving funds from public on pretext of operating these apps (mobile applications)," the federal agency said in a statement.
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The app-based token under investigation in this case is HPZ and the entities whose funds have been frozen under the anti-money laundering law include Comein Network Technology Private Ltd, Mobicred Technology Private Ltd, Magic Data Technology Private Ltd, Baitu Technology Private Ltd, Aliyeye Network Technology India Pvt Ltd, Wecash Technology Private Ltd, Larting Private Ltd, Magic Bird Technology Private Ltd and Acepearl Services Private Ltd.
"Account balances worth ₹9.82 crore of various Chinese-controlled entities maintained with payment gateways, in respect of an investigation relating to the misuse of app-based token named HPZ and other similar applications by several entities, have been frozen," the ED said.
The Enforcement Directorate had earlier this month undertaken a similar operation and frozen funds worth ₹46.67 crore. These funds were stated by the agency to be belonging to certain merchant entities and held in payment gateways like Easebuzz, Razorpay, Cashfree and Paytm.
These companies had said that the funds did not belong to them and they were extending full cooperation to the ED in this investigation.
HPZ was an app-based token which promised users of large gains against investment by declaring the same as “investing in mining machines for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies”.
"The modus-operandi of the fraudsters was to first lure the victims to invest in their companies on the pretext of doubling /multiplying their investment through the HPZ token and other similar applications," the agency said.
The money laundering case stems from an October, 2021 FIR filed against the accused company and its linked persons by the cyber crime unit of the Kohima Police in Nagaland. PTI NES DV DV
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