New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has written a letter to the Union Home Minister alleging that the Aam Aadmi Party, which rules Delhi and Punjab, has received foreign funds worth more than Rs 7 crore in violation of the FCRA, an official source said on Monday. Gave.
The federal probe agency sent this communication after some documents and emails were recovered during the drug-related money laundering investigation against former Punjab AAP MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira and some others.
The investigation was initiated in 2021 and Khaira was arrested by the ED in the same year. H is now with the Congress Party.
Official sources said the ED had sent a detailed letter to the Union Home Ministry in August last year, outlining the alleged violations by AAP and classified these incidents as violations of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and the Representation of the People Act. it was done.
The ED is understood to have recently shared some fresh inputs with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in this case.Sources said the ED found that AAP has received foreign donations worth around Rs 7.0 crore so far and that they allegedly "misdeclared and manipulated" the identity and nationality of foreign donors besides some other details.
The agency also informed MHA about the verified names of donors, their nationality, passport number, amount donated, mode of donation and recipient's restrictions account number, billing name, address, phone number, email time and date of donation Is. Payment gateways were used, sources said.
The agency told the ministry that there were alleged violations of the FCRA in some fundraising events organized by AAP through its foreign wing volunteers in the United States and Canada between 2015 and 2016.
Alleging violations in a particular case, the ED also informed the Home Ministry that the names and nationality of certain Canada-based people were being changed in the party's financial records to "hide" foreign donations being made to the party in India. "Hidden" is set.Bank account.
A senior official said that FCRA violation cases are investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Home Ministry can write to it seeking investigation into these allegations made by the ED.
The federal probe agency sent this communication after some documents and emails were recovered during the drug-related money laundering investigation against former Punjab AAP MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira and some others.
The investigation was initiated in 2021 and Khaira was arrested by the ED in the same year. H is now with the Congress Party.
Official sources said the ED had sent a detailed letter to the Union Home Ministry in August last year, outlining the alleged violations by AAP and classified these incidents as violations of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) and the Representation of the People Act. it was done.
The ED is understood to have recently shared some fresh inputs with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in this case.Sources said the ED found that AAP has received foreign donations worth around Rs 7.0 crore so far and that they allegedly "misdeclared and manipulated" the identity and nationality of foreign donors besides some other details.
The agency also informed MHA about the verified names of donors, their nationality, passport number, amount donated, mode of donation and recipient's restrictions account number, billing name, address, phone number, email time and date of donation Is. Payment gateways were used, sources said.
The agency told the ministry that there were alleged violations of the FCRA in some fundraising events organized by AAP through its foreign wing volunteers in the United States and Canada between 2015 and 2016.
Alleging violations in a particular case, the ED also informed the Home Ministry that the names and nationality of certain Canada-based people were being changed in the party's financial records to "hide" foreign donations being made to the party in India. "Hidden" is set.Bank account.
A senior official said that FCRA violation cases are investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Home Ministry can write to it seeking investigation into these allegations made by the ED.
