The report claims that the Chinese tech firm is snooping into several India-based mobile applications to collect data for hybrid warfare - a non-military way to achieve dominance or influence.
As per the second part of Indian Express investigation, Zhenhua is keeping a close track on several payments app, e-commerce apps, supply chain & delivery apps, tech startups, traffic apps and venture capitalist firms of India.
The report claims that the Chinese company is snooping into Indian businesses by tracking the records of above mentioned mobile applications and companies based in India.
It further revealed that the Overseas Key Individual DataBase (OKIDB), built by Chinese firm Zhenhua Data, has around 1,400 such entries including venture capitalist firms and others that covers a massive section of India's new economy.
The Indian Express report says that the Chinese firm has targeted venture capitalists, technology officers, investors of some of India's well-known startups and e-commerce platforms and even some foreign investors based in India.
List of some e-commerce platforms tracked by OKIDB:
Flipkart
Snapdeal
Myntra
Nykaa
Urban Ladder
MamaEarth
List of some delivery apps tracked by OKIDB:
Zomato
Swiggy
FoodPanda
Bigbasket
Daily Bazaar
Zappfresh
List of some payments apps tracked by OKIDB:
Paytm
PhonePe
Razorpay
Pine Labs
Avenues Payments
List of some cab aggregators tracked by OKIDB:
Ola
Uber
Rapido
Yulu
Cityflo
List of Angel investors and venture capitalists being tracked by OKIDB:
Premji Invest
Mahindra Group
Reliance Brands
Morgan Stanley
Matrix Partners India
Kalaari Capital
Seed Fund
Fireside Ventures
The report also stated that the focus on the Chinese tech firm was to monitor on founders, CEO, CFOs, CTOs, and COOs of some of leading companies named above. It also highlighted the fact that the cluster created by the China-based tech giant Zhenhua, having links with the Chinese Communist Party, has over 10,000 Indian individuals and entities in its list.
On Monday, the daily also shared a report which said that those being monitored by Zhenhua Data include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, CDS chief Bipin Rawat, Former Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi, Former PM Manmohan Singh, top bureaucrats, academicians, journalists and the list goes on and on...