{"id":330811,"date":"2022-06-01T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=330811"},"modified":"2022-06-01T19:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T13:30:18","slug":"pfi-money-laundering-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/top-news\/pfi-money-laundering-case\/","title":{"rendered":"ED freezes bank accounts of Popular Front of India in money laundering case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday has frozen the bank accounts of the Popular Front of India (PFI) in a money laundering case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports said the ED froze 23 bank accounts of PFI and 10 bank accounts of PFI&#8217;s front organisation RIF (Rehab India Foundation). The case was registered on the basis of complaints filed by the state police and the NIA, reports further said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ED tweeted that the body had provisionally attached bank accounts of Popular Front of India and Rehab India Foundation having a collective balance of Rs 68,62,081 under PMLA, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ED has provisionally attached bank accounts of Popular Front of India and Rehab India Foundation having collective balance of Rs. 68,62,081 under PMLA, 2002.<\/p>&mdash; ED (@dir_ed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dir_ed\/status\/1531977854124462080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, the ED had filed a prosecution case against two PFI leaders Abdul Razak Peediyakaal and Asharaf Khadir in a money laundering case of Rs 22 crore. The charge sheet launched said that both the leaders established a business in Kerala&#8217;s Munnar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the ED on Wednesday summoned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over the National Herald case. It was registered recently to investigate alleged financial irregularities in Young India which owns the National Herald newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at a press conference, Randeep Surjewala said the government can neither suppress the calls for freedom by National Herald, nor they can scare either Sonia or Rahul Gandhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports said the ED froze 23 bank accounts of PFI and 10 bank accounts of PFI&#8217;s front organisation RIF (Rehab India Foundation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":139990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"ED freezes bank accounts of Popular Front of India in money laundering case\n\n#PFI\n","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[125714],"tags":[998,89234],"yst_prominent_words":[9000,28834,23918,22014,27270,89226,3814,3704,28968,3962,3964,3957,38807,89227,89228,89224,5951],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/06\/23142933\/enforcement-directorate-1578324433.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330811"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=330811"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=330811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->