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Boxes filled with company seals and digital signatures of dummy directors have been recovered from the site, as per the ministry
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The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has arrested an alleged mastermind of Chinese shell companies in India, said the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) on Sunday.
The ministry in a statement said that after the simultaneous search and seizure operations conducted by the MCA on 8 September 2022, on the offices of Jillian Consultants India Private, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jilian Hong Kong at Gurgaon, Fininty at Bangalore and Husys Consulting at Hyderabad.
The ministry said that the SFIO has arrested Dortse and that he is on the board of Jillian India and has clearly emerged as the mastermind of the whole racket of incorporating a large number of shell companies with Chinese links in India and providing dummy directors on their boards.
"The arrested person Dortse had shown himself to be a resident of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh as per the records filed with the registrar of companies," the ministry said.
Also, the evidence procured during the enquiry by ROC Delhi and the simultaneous search operations clearly point to dummy directors being paid by Jilian India to act as dummies in several shell companies.
Boxes filled with company seals and digital signatures of dummy directors have been recovered from the site, as per the ministry.
The Indian employees were in touch with their Chinese counterparts through a Chinese instant messaging app Husys was also found to be acting on behalf of Jilian India.
If the central government is to to be belived, initial observations reveal that Husys had a pact with Jilian Hong Kong.
"Investigations so far have revealed the possible involvement of these shell companies in serious financial crimes detrimental to the financial security of the country," it said.