New Delhi, 25 September (IANS) dismissed Bhupesh Arora’s bail plea in a special PMLA court, a prominent accused and fugitive economic criminal, an ED officer on Thursday, in a case related to cyber-capable investment fraud through the Loxam app.
On 20 September, the court rejected Arora’s bail plea after the ED opposed the bail application. Arora was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on 11 July 2025 after developing law enforcement agencies for several years, the official said in a statement.
Ed said he had fled to Dubai in early 2022, as well as with colleagues to avoid the ongoing cyber fraud investigation and on his Clandstine Re-entry in India through the Nepal border.
Arora has emerged as an important conspirator in orchestrating the laundering of illegal income. The PMLA confirms evidence, cash withdrawal, foreign exchange conversion, and their role in conversion in connivance with evidence, cash withdrawal, foreign exchange conversion, and money in connivance with Money Chances and other middlemen.
ED, under the PMLA, 2002, had investigated against Xindai Technologies Private Limited, Bhupesh Arora, Rohit Vij and others, which was initiated on the basis of an FIR of 26 July 2022, registered by Hyderabad Police.
The FIR alleged that some Chinese citizens, along with some Indians, have cheated various individual investors through an investment app ‘Loxam’, incorrectly introduced it as part of a reputed French MNC and offered unrealistic returns on investment.
The FIR stated that the investments received through this app were converted out of the country by converting them to foreign currency through various money chances.
The ED filed a prosecution complaint under the PMLA, 2002, exposing the Loxam app as a fraud investment platform, incorrectly introducing the link to a reputed French MNC.
Thousands of unheard investors were lured with excessive returns promises, only their funds were inserted through a complex web of shell entities, virtual accounts and payment gateway.
During the investigation, the five premises were discovered, where the ED said the properties of Rs 2.01 crore along with various digital devices, the ED said.
More than 500 bank accounts were analyzed, which revealed that the Crime of more than Rs 311 crore was broadcast through Xindai Technologies PVT. Ltd. and allied institutions before Ranjan Moneycorp Private have layered in accounts. Ltd. and KDS Forex Pvt. Limited
These illegal funds were further converted into foreign currency and sent abroad through hawala operators. The investigation has also detected a foreign exchange transaction of about Rs 903 crore, which has been rooted through shell institutions working with a normal IP address and a corresponding pattern of typology by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on the payout mechanism-cyber-sapnered money laundering from the payment gateway.
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