ED summons PFI, linked NGO officials in money-laundering probe

The Enforcement Directorate summoned seven office-bearers of the Kerala-based Popular Front of India (PFI) and an NGO linked to it in connection with a money-laundering probe against them, officials said yesterday.

They said the office-bearers of PFI and those from the Rehab India Foundation were asked to depose before the investigating officer of the case in New Delhi today. The summonses were issued under the



Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), sources said.

The development comes in the backdrop of the ED finding that the recent violent protests in Uttar Pradesh and other parts of the country against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) had an alleged financial link with the PFI and the organization terming it as baseless. The PFI was booked by the ED under the PMLA in 2018.