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NEWS: India accuses China’s Vivo of visa violations, siphoning off $13BN

File Photo: A Vivo logo is seen at a shopping mall in Shanghai, China February 22, 2019. Picture taken February 22, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

By Arpan Chaturvedi and Aditya Kalra

Many employees of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo and its Indian affiliates concealed their employment when seeking visas, and some breached rules by visiting the “sensitive” Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, India’s financial crime agency has said.

The court statement comes as tension rises with Beijing over business activities after New Delhi tightened curbs on incoming investment and banned hundreds of Chinese apps following border clashes in 2020 that killed 20 Indian and four Chinese troops.

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