Journalist Rana Ayyub stopped from flying abroad, ED asks her to join money laundering probe

The ED had said that fake bills were found to have been prepared by Rana Ayyub in the name of some entities to claim expenses on relief work and expenses made for personal travel by air were claimed as expense for relief work Mumbai/New Delhi: Journalist Rana Ayyub was on Tuesday stopped by authorities at the Mumbai international airport from flying abroad in the wake of a ’look out circular’ issued by the Enforcement Directorate against her, officials said. Officials said the ED had first issued summons to her after the agency early this year provisionally attached over Rs 1.77 crore in bank deposits in connection with the case against her linked to alleged irregularities in charitable funds raised by her from public donors for COVID-19 relief work during 2020-2021. I had made this announcement public over weeks, yet the ED summon very curiously arrived in my inbox after i was stopped https://t.co/BGNm8pcjlD — Rana Ayyub March 29, 2022 Posting a subsequent Tweet she said these events “have been planned and publicised all over my social media for weeks.” “Yet, curiously the Enforcement directorate summon arrived in my mail much after I was stopped at the immigration. The ED had said, “Fake bills were found to have been prepared by Rana Ayyub in the name of some entities to claim expenses on relief work and expenses made for personal travel by air were claimed as expense for relief work”.