Who is Neville Roy Singham, Tech Millionaire Who Spun Complex Web of Chinese Propaganda in India

A US-based millionaire, Neville Roy Singham has been accused of funding a financial network to push Chinese talking points worldwide, as per a New York Times investigation. Two years ago, an investigation was done on a news website the roots of which traced back to the millionaire. He has been accused of helping China spread their word in various countries.

Singham is the founder and former chairman of ThoughtWorks, an IT consulting company. Neville was born to father Archibald Wickeramaraja Singham, a Sri Lankan political scientist and historian. Singham started his firm in Chicago and moved to Shanghai, where is based now.

Neville even had a news agency in India called the NewsClick which was investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) two years ago and found that the agency received nearly Rs 38 crore in funding from abroad. Upon tracing the money trail reached the American millionaire Singham.