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小米印度声称高管受到威胁;ED否认
小米在向卡纳塔克邦高等法院提交的诉状中表示，两名高管——前印度董事总经理马努·库马尔·贾恩(Manu Kumar Jain)和首席财务官萨米尔·BS·拉奥(Sameer BS Rao)及其家人受到威胁，如果他们不按照ED的要求提供陈述，将面临“严重后果，包括逮捕、职业前景受损、刑事责任和身体暴力”。贾恩目前是小米的全球副总裁。
小米在向卡纳塔克邦高等法院提交的诉状中表示，两名高管——前印度董事总经理马努·库马尔·贾恩(Manu Kumar Jain)和首席财务官萨米尔·BS·拉奥(Sameer BS Rao)及其家人受到威胁，如果他们不按照ED的要求提供陈述，将面临“严重后果，包括逮捕、职业前景受损、刑事责任和身体暴力”。贾恩目前是小米的全球副总裁。
根据ET看到的法庭文件，高管们在一段时间内能够抵抗ED的“极端和敌意的辱骂和压力”，但最终妥协，并做出了非自愿的陈述，包括一项承诺。
“令状的内容对公众保密。似乎是想制造某种轰动效应，而不考虑它将对ED、印度政府和公司产生的影响，”小米印度发言人在一份声明中表示。
“不允许提交撤回申请”
调查机构否认了通过这种恐吓手段获取口供的说法。
它说:“经过相当长的时间，现在提出的指控似乎是事后才想到的。”“这些指控毫无根据，与事实相去甚远。”ED说，在任何时候都没有对该公司的高管进行胁迫或威胁。
该机构说，公司高管在记录报表期间没有提出任何投诉，最后一次记录是在4月26日。小米印度前董事总经理马努·库马尔·贾恩的发言是在4月26日等3天内录制的。Jain目前是小米的全球副总裁。
“小米印度官员在联邦应急管理局的监督下，在各种场合自愿在最有利的环境下，在ED面前作证，”ED声明中写道。
在5月5日通过的一项临时命令中，卡纳塔克邦高等法院禁止小米India向印度境外的公司支付特许权使用费或其他费用。法院还暂停了ED对该公司价值超过555.127亿卢比的资产的扣押。5月12日，法院公布了此事，等待进一步审理。
印度表示，所有版税支付都是合法和真实的，以回应ED行动
“我们仔细研究了政府当局的命令。我们相信特许使用金对银行的陈述都是真实合法的。小米印度公司支付的这些专利使用费是用于我们印度版产品中使用的授权技术和ip。”
印度税务局上月底通过了一项命令，查封了小米印度银行账户中上述金额，指控这家智能手机制造商以“版税支付的名义”向三家外国实体汇款。
小米的律师表示，该命令是非法的，因为专利使用费被所得税部门视为一种增值活动，印度其他手机制造商和经销商也向同一家公司支付类似的费用。该律师告诉法庭，由于ED命令，该公司的业务已经中断，小米印度没有能力支付工资。
审理此案的单人法官小组维持了ED命令，条件是账户中的钱只能用于日常开支。在案件结案之前，小米不得向印度以外的公司付款。
ED的调查是法律和税收执法机构采取的更广泛行动的一部分，此前情报部门发出警告中国公司．过去几个月，印度机构一直在追查涉嫌洗钱和其他违规行为的中国实体，并在去年中印关系紧张后禁止了几个基于中国的应用程序。
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<\/figure><\/strong>New Delhi: Xiaomi<\/a> India has alleged that Directorate of Enforcement (ED) officials threatened top executives with violence during questioning as part of its probe into Foreign Exchange Management Act (Fema) violations by the company. The ED denied the accusations, calling them \u201cuntrue and baseless\u201d in a press release on Saturday.Xiaomi said in a writ petition filed in the Karnataka High Court that two top executives \u2014 Manu Kumar Jain, former India managing director, and chief financial officer Sameer BS Rao \u2014 and their families were threatened with \u201cdire consequences including arrest, damage to the career prospects, criminal liability and physical violence\u201d if they didn\u2019t furnish statements as dictated by the ED. Jain is currently global vice president at Xiaomi.
The executives were able to resist ED\u2019s \u201cextreme and hostile abuse and pressure\u201d for some time but eventually relented and made involuntary statements, including an undertaking, according to the court filing, which ET has seen.
<\/div><\/div>The wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Xiaomi Group declined to comment specifically on the allegations.
\u201cThe contents of the writ petition are confidential qua public at large. There seems to be a want to create some sort of sensationalism without considering the impact that it will have on the ED, government of India and the company,\u201d a Xiaomi India spokesperson said in a statement.
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The investigating agency rejected the contention that it had extracted statements through such intimidation.
\u201cIt appears the allegation now made after passage of substantial time is an afterthought,\u201d it said. \u201cThe allegations are baseless and far from the facts.\u201d There was no coercion or threat made against the executives of the company at any point of time, the ED said.
The agency said company executives didn\u2019t file any complaints during the recording of statements, the last of which was made on April 26. The statements of Manu Kumar Jain, former managing director of Xiaomi India, was recorded on three days, including April 26. Jain is currently global vice president at Xiaomi.
\u201cThe officials of Xiaomi India deposed their statements before ED under Fema voluntarily in the most conducive environment on various occasions,\u201d the ED statement read.
\u201cThe contents of the writ petition are confidential qua public at large. There seems to be a want to create some sort of sensationalism without considering the impact that it will have on the ED, government of India and the company,\u201d a Xiaomi India spokesperson said in a statement.
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The investigating agency rejected the contention that it had extracted statements through such intimidation.
\u201cIt appears the allegation now made after passage of substantial time is an afterthought,\u201d it said. \u201cThe allegations are baseless and far from the facts.\u201d There was no coercion or threat made against the executives of the company at any point of time, the ED said.
The agency said company executives didn\u2019t file any complaints during the recording of statements, the last of which was made on April 26. The statements of Manu Kumar Jain, former managing director of Xiaomi India, was recorded on three days, including April 26. Jain is currently global vice president at Xiaomi.
\u201cThe officials of Xiaomi India deposed their statements before ED under Fema voluntarily in the most conducive environment on various occasions,\u201d the ED statement read.
<\/div><\/div>However, Xiaomi\u2019s writ petition said CFO Rao wrote a letter on April 25 putting on record that \u201che was not being permitted to file a retraction\u201d of the undertaking made under duress.
In an interim order passed on May 5, the Karnataka High Court barred Xiaomi India from making royalty or other payments to companies outside India. The court also stayed ED\u2019s seizure of the company\u2019s assets worth more than Rs 5,551.27 crore. It posted the matter for further hearing on May 12.
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In an interim order passed on May 5, the Karnataka High Court barred Xiaomi India from making royalty or other payments to companies outside India. The court also stayed ED\u2019s seizure of the company\u2019s assets worth more than Rs 5,551.27 crore. It posted the matter for further hearing on May 12.
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