> No, this is not money laundering (it would be a poor one as this will immediately arouse suspicion on such platforms - after all, if you place an order, the delivery person will appear to your kitchen to collect the order and if there is no food they will report you. For this to be successful both Swiggy and Zomato itself need to be involved in it. And as the author noted, food is available from these restaurants, even if it is lousy food.)

Not only that, but the platform fees will eat like half of your money so this would be an outrageously stupid way to launder money. And then, you’d also need to have large amounts of money split over a large quantity of different credit cards for this idea to make sense.