hyderabad telangana police on wednesday arrested chinese national he jian and an indian associate from thane in the ongoing illegal instant loan app case that has links across the countryrachakonda police commissioner mahesh bhagawat said they came across the names of jian alias mark 26 and his indian associate vivek kumar as key operators of the instant loan business after interrogating liang tiantian a chinese woman and two others picked up on december 25 from a pune call centrethe officials have so far arrested five chinese nationals three of them yi bai liang tiantian and zhu wei alias lambo have been arrested in the past two months and booked in the instant loan app case the fourth yah hao was arrested in august for running an online gambling racket in which a large number of indians have lost crores of rupees he is in jailin the latest case police landed in thane after examining more than 100 laptops and documents seized in the christmas day raid and found jian holed up there along with vivekthey were first produced in a local court and brought to hyderabad on prison transit warrantpolice froze rs 30 crore parked in different bank accounts and saidjian operated 24 mobile phone applications which are into the disbursement of loans at highinterest ratesthe apps through which loans have been disbursed had no valid licence from reserve bank of india rbi to run nonbanking finance companies nbfcs bhagawat told a media conferenceexplaining their modus operandi bhagawat said that after one week of sanctioning the loan to a customer jian and his associates would harass people to return the moneythe defaulters were harassed and defamed through calls and messages to all persons in hisher telephone call list said bhagawatinvestigations have so far revealed that jian came to india in 2019 on a business visahe came as a representative of chinese nationals xu nan xu xinchang and zhao qiao who are directors of ajaya solutions which is into microfinance loan apps companies they later appointed ankur singh as director of the company added bhagawatafter setting up the company for disbursement of loans jian and his chinabased superiors had initially set up a call centre at thane for recovery of loans later they outsourced the recovery aspect to the earlier arrested tian tian and her husband parshuram lahu takve who operated a company called jia liang infotech pvt ltd in pune