New Delhi: Journalist Rana Ayyub shared a long newsletter on Friday, a day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached her assets in a money laundering case, calling the allegations utterly baseless and mala fide. In her statement, she tried to explain the various funds received through several donation campaigns to carry out relief work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
My statementhttps://t.co/EgMfHXjoaT pic.twitter.com/tlxahJz94J
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) February 11, 2022
‘The various allegations reported by the media, who seem to be in possession of the Provisional Attachment Order dated 04.02.2022 of the ED, which I do not have a copy of, are utterly baseless, mala fide and fanciful’, Ayyub wrote in her statement. ‘In my three public campaigns undertaken on Ketto, I had raised a total of INR. 2,69,44,679 (about 26.9 million). I have provided all bills and invoices for the relief work undertaken by me, which is to the tune of 40 lakhs / 4 million rupees (40,45,644 /- to be precise)’, Ayyub stated.
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The ED has attached assets worth Rs 1.77 crore of Rana Ayyub in connection with a money laundering case lodged against her for allegedly misusing funds collected in the name of help and charity through a website- ketto.com. An ED official had said that Ayyub allegedly misused the funds and diverted them into another account for personal expenses. ED sources said she cheated donors in a pre-planned manner. According to the central agency, Ayyub had opened a Fixed Deposit (FD) of Rs 50 Lakh, the money was collected through a campaign, and diverted into FD from the savings account through net banking.
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