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More grief for AAP as ED says birthday celebration obtained Rs 7.08 crore in international funding, seeks FCRA probe

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AAP on Monday (Would possibly maybe maybe also merely 20) rebuffed the allegations calling it “a brand unusual conspiracy by the BJP” to tarnish the image of Kejriwal govt amid the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.

Spelling more grief for the Aam Aadmi Salvage collectively, the Enforcement Directorate filed an official file with the Union Dwelling Ministry (MHA) where it alleged that AAP obtained over Rs 7 crore as international funding, in violation of the Foreign Contribution Legislation Act (FCRA).

The ED shared the inputs with MHA after it retrieved several emails and documents from the time when a cash laundering probe connected to medicines was once launched in opposition to passe Punjab AAP MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira alongside with other political figures.

Notably, the investigation was once initiated in 2021 and Khaira was once arrested within the case by ED that 300 and sixty five days. He left AAP and is within the mean time with the Congress birthday celebration.

The federal probe company, as per news company PTI stories, found out out that till now AAP has obtained about Rs 7.08 crore as abroad donations.

The ED furthermore alleged that the birthday celebration has “mis-declared and manipulated” valuable aspects love the identities and nationalities of the international donors.

AAP refutes allegations

AAP on Monday (Would possibly maybe maybe also merely 20) rebuffed the allegations calling it “a brand unusual conspiracy by the BJP” to tarnish the image of Kejriwal govt amid the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.

While addressing a media briefing on Monday senior AAP leader Atishi claimed that BJP did not body her birthday celebration leaders within the liquor rip-off and the Swati Maliwal sexual harassment case, so it has attain up with this unusual topic.

“These are baseless allegations. It’s an light case where it has already been proved that no illegal donation has been taken. As the elections are nearing (in Delhi and Punjab), the BJP has hatched a brand unusual conspiracy to body the Aam Aadmi Salvage collectively,” she alleged.

The development comes in opposition to the backdrop of AAP being named as accused within the cash laundering case connected to the alleged excise coverage rip-off.

This furthermore comes after Delhi CM and birthday celebration supremo Arvind Kejriwal’s shut aide Bibhav Kumar was once arrested following grave allegations of assault by the birthday celebration’s Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal.

(With inputs from agencies)

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