India, Dec. 10 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Wednesday that it has filed a charge sheet against two Chinese nationals who allegedly ran an investment fraud in India during the pandemic, in which over Rs.1,000 crore were siphoned off through shell companies.

The agency said Shigoo Technology Pvt. Ltd., owned and controlled by Chinese nationals, allegedly cheated the public during the Covid lockdown using a fake mobile application titled 'HPZ Tokens', claiming that investments would be used for cryptocurrency mining and would yield very high returns.

The CBI has filed a charge sheet against 30 entities, including the two Chinese nationals, 25 individuals and three companies as investigations revealed an intricate we...