India Seizes $58.7 Million From Chinese Smartphone Maker Vivo Over Tax Evasion

India Seizes $58.7 Million From Chinese Smartphone Maker Vivo Over Tax Evasion
A scooterist rides past an advertisement of Chinese mobile phone maker Vivo, painted on a shuttered shop of a market in Mumbai on July 31, 2020. Indranil Mukherjee/AFP via Getty Images
Aldgra Fredly
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India’s anti-money laundering agency said on Thursday that it seized 119 bank accounts containing 4.65 billion rupees ($58.75 million) from Indian businesses linked with Chinese smartphone maker Vivo for tax evasion.

The Indian Enforcement Directorate said that Vivo India remitted 62.47 billion rupees ($7.9 million), or almost 50 percent, of its total turnover outside the country, mainly to China.