A Chinese national was among five people booked for making millions illegally in Bangladesh by promoting obscenity through a mobile app, according to local media.
The live streaming platform Bigo Bangla, whose managing director was a Chinese national, has allegedly earned a total of Tk 1.08 billion from the people citing the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
A case has been registered under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in the names of five people. Yao has been accused of smuggling 79 crore taka from Bangladesh to abroad. Sohel Rana, the CID sub-inspector (SI) who filed the case, according to the publication, said that he has dug into the allegations of money laundering against Bigo Live for more than a year. After collecting the necessary evidence, he filed the lawsuit against the Bigo official on September 25. Bigo Bangla workers Najmul Haque and Arif Hossain and a company named Monsoon Holding have been made defendants.
