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New Delhi: On Tuesday, A Delhi court extended the Enforcement Directorate custody of three Vivo-India executives in connection with a money laundering probe against the Chinese smartphone-maker and others by two days. The three accused as Vivo India interim CEO Hong Xuquan, Vivo Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Harinder Dahiya and consultant Hemant Munjal will now be produced before the court on December 28.
The accused were presented before Special Judge Kiran Gupta of Patiala House Courts on expiry of their previously granted three-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody.Additional Sessions Judge Aparna Swami extended the custody of Interim CEO of Vivo-India Hong Xiuquan alias Terry, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Harinder Dahiya and consultant Hemant Munjal on an application moved by the Enforcement Directorate.
The arrests were made in the case months after the four accused — Lava International MD Hari Om Rai, Chinese national Guangwen alias Andrew Kuang, Chartered Accountants Nitin Garg and Rajan Malik — were arrested on October 10 this year. The accused were taken into custody under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The accused were produced before the court on the expiry of their three-day ED custody granted earlier.
The Enforcement Directorate had filed a charge-sheet against the four in a special PMLA court in Delhi. The court recently took cognisance of the charge-sheet. The federal agency had earlier arrested four people mobile company Lava International MD Hari Om Rai, Chinese national Guangwen alias Andrew Kuang, and chartered accountants Nitin Garg and Rajan Malik in the case. They are in judicial custody at present.
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