Chinese man held for hawala racket was also after Dalai Lama: Sources

A Chinese national arrested for alleged money-laundering, was also bribing some Tibetan monks in Delhi, possibly to gather information on Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and his associates, the I-T department has found. Sources said cash between 2 lakh and 3 lakh were given to many people, who live near Majnu Ka Tila in Delhi. The process of identifying them is on, NDTV reported on Sunday.

Luo Sang (in pic), operating under the fake name Charlie Peng, was arrested on Tuesday during an I-T raid in Delhi. The Delhi Police said he is also accused of espionage in September 2018. At present he is out on bail.

Probes revealed Luo Sang had illegally entered India from Nepal in 2014. He married a woman from Mizoram and took up Indian identity with a fake passport issued from Manipur. He also got Aadhaar and PAN cards made in that name.

The bribe money for Tibetan monks was sent through men working at the office of Luo Sang, the IT department has told government agencies. The couriers have admitted to transferring the cash.

The group conducted its entire communication was done on Chinese app We Chat, sources said.

The dept has tracked down a Delhi-based CA, who was helping the group in money laundering. The man is being probed and is yet to be nabbed was operating 40 bank accounts. Transactions worth of 300 crore were conducted, sources said. The transactions were done on the behalf of Chinese firms some of which have been traced

Many transactions were routed through Hong Kong. The discussions about these were also conducted through We Chat, sources said.