Directorate of Enforcement (ED) issued provisional attachment order under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) attaching bank accounts of M/s Amnesty International India pvt. ltd. (AIIPL) and M/s Indians for Amnesty International Trust (IAIT) as both the entities have acquired the proceeds of crime and layered the same in the form of various movable properties. The said provisional attachment order involves attachment of movable properties worth of Rs17.66 crores being proceeds of crime.
ED initiated investigation on the basis of firregistered by CBI, EOU-IV, New Delhi against M/s Amnesty International India pvt ltd. (AIIPL), M/s Indians for Amnesty International Trust (IAIT), M/s Amnesty International India Foundation Trust (AIIFT) and M/s Amnesty International South Asia Foundation (AISAF), under section 120-B IPC, 1860 and under sections 11, 35 & 39 of FCRA, foreign contributions regulatory act, 2010.
In this case, Amnesty International India…