Foreign funding licences of 2 NGOs headed by Sonia Gandhi cancelled

Highlights The licences have been cancelled for alleged violation of laws, officials said Action came following investigations carried out by an inter-ministerial committee formed by MHA Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of the RGF as well as the RGCT The Union Home ministry on Sunday cancelled Foreign Contribution Regulation Act licences of Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust, two NGOs headed by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. "The FCRA licences of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust have been cancelled after investigations against these NGOs," an official said. The trustees of the RGF are former prime minister Manmohan Singh, former finance minister P Chidambaram, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Suman Dubey and Ashok Ganguly. The probe team comprised officers from the ministries of home and finance, the Central Bureau of Investigation, besides the ED, and was mandated to investigate if these trusts run by the Gandhi family and other Congress leaders allegedly manipulated any documents while filing income tax returns or misused and laundered money received from foreign countries.