The Enforcement Directorate is examining declared offense of foreign funding policies by journalist Rana Ayyub while collecting donations for COVID-19 relief
Journalist Rana Ayyub was stopped from flying to London on Tuesday as she is an accused in a claimed money laundering situation, which is being explored by the Enforcement Directorate.
Ms Ayyub was stopped at Mumbai flight terminal prior to she can board a flight to London.
The Enforcement Directorate is investigating alleged violation of foreign funding guidelines by Ms Ayyub while accumulating contributions for COVID-19 relief.
The reporter, nevertheless, tweeted the Enforcement Directorate’s summons “very strangely enough” reached her inbox just after she was stopped at Mumbai flight terminal.
“I was stopped today at Mumbai immigration from travelling to deliver this address and onwards to International Journalism Celebration to provide the keynote speech on Indian freedom. I had actually made this announcement public over weeks, yet the ED (Enforcement Directorate) summon very curiously arrived in my inbox after I was quit,” Ms Ayyub tweeted.
The Washington-based charitable, International Centre for Journalists, had actually invited Ms Ayyub to the UK for a conversation on online violence against women journalists. Ms Ayyub has usually tweeted she encountered online harassment and fatality dangers from trolls.
The Enforcement Directorate has actually mobilized her for doubting on April 1.
The cash laundering instance versus Ms Ayyub is based upon a First Info Record or FIR filed by Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad Cops in September, by a Vikas Sankrityayan – the founder of an NGO called “Hindu IT Cell” and also a local of Indirapuram in Ghaziabad.
According to a file credited to “ED resources”, the company which checks out economic criminal offenses found that the journalist had actually increased over 2.69 crore with an on the internet crowdfunding system called Ketto for philanthropic purposes between 2020 as well as 2021.
Ms Ayyub has actually preserved the “entire contribution obtained through Ketto is accounted for and not a single paisa has been misused”.
However, the ED alleged its probe makes it generously clear that the funds were elevated for charity in a completely pre-planned and organized fashion, as well as the funds were not utilized entirely for the purpose of which the funds were increased.
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Last Updated: 30 March 2022
