Citizens, urgently in need of small loans and seeking them via Chinese apps, are getting threat calls by ‘agents’ if there is a delay in repayment. There have been many incidents of harassment of victims by such ‘loan sharks’.

In January, Telangana police arrested a Chinese, HE Jian alias Mark (26), from Jiangxi, from Thane for calling debtors and threatening them.  Last year on November 27, TV serial writer Abhishek Makwana (37) died by suicide, allegedly following harassment by loan sharks of a Chinese app, stated a report in The Times of India.