Court dismisses ByteDance’s plea to unblock bank accounts
By LE Desk
Mumbai, April 6: An Indian court on Tuesday dealt a blow to China’s ByteDance by dismissing its plea to unblock its bank accounts which have been frozen by federal authorities investigating alleged tax evasion.
An Indian tax intelligence agency in mid-March ordered HSBC and Citibank in Mumbai to freeze accounts of ByteDance India as it probed some of the firm’s financial dealings. ByteDance challenged the move in court saying the freeze amounts to harassment and was done illegally.
After a government counsel said ByteDance owed the authorities about Rs 79 crore ($11 million), the High Court in Mumbai said the company will need to keep that amount blocked in a state-run bank.
That “account will be frozen”, the two-judge bench said, Reuters reported.
https://www.vccircle.com/court-dismisses-bytedance-s-plea-to-unblock-bank-accounts
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