The office of Jilian Consultants India Pvt Ltd, in a mall off Gurugram’s prime MG Road bore a sombre look on Monday morning. Two policemen from Gurugram Police stood guard outside it, even as news trickled in that its director Dortse Luo was arrested by Bihar Police and Serious Frauds Investigation Office (SFIO) investigators from Gaya in Bihar for allegedly running a scam which involved a network of shell companies effectively owned by Chinese companies and multiple loan apps built to defraud and harass people who sought to avail instant online loans.
The Gurugram premises offered a hint of the nature of the scam, with concerned visitors arriving at the office through the day. “Since September 8, frequency of visitors to that (Jilian’s) office has shot up. Today itself, more than 50 people have visited the office,” said a liftman, who ushered people up to the company’s office on the fourth floor.
For Jilian’s employees, the arrest has come as a shock, and they insist that they were unaware of the alleged fraud. “We believed that we used to work for a China-based finance company,” one of the employees said, asking not to be named.
On September 8, the day Luo was arrested, Gaya senior superintendent of police (SSP) Harpreet Kaur said, “Acting on an input from the central agency, police verified Dortse’s current location and detained him from Maya Heritage Hotel. Two cellphones and an Aadhaar card were recovered from his possession.” The Aadhaar card…
