CBI registration of FCRA violations allegedly involved in AAP Durgesh Pathak’s FCRA violation case

AAP leader Durgesh Patha. File | Image source: Hindu

The CBI has registered cases of suspected foreign donations (regulation) violations against Durgesh Pathak, among others of Aam Aadmi Party. An agency source said the agency was conducting a search for his home.

While the agency has not disclosed details of the case, two claims last year that the Enforcement Bureau documents claimed that there was some irregularity in the donations AAP received during the 2014-2022 period, surfaced before the Lok Sabha election.

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Responding to the allegations, AAP senior leader Atishi later said that since its inception, AAP has been completely transparent and that every rupees received through donations have been shown to India, the income tax department and other agencies.

Ms. Atishi claimed that this was part of the BJP’s “political conspiracy”: “I want to tell BJP that you have asked this question many years later. AAP has answered the CBI, ED, MHA and the Election Commission on this question. On this question. Before the election, Delhi and Punjab and Puthjab and Potovers overs overs overds overs overs overs of top over.

The papers contain detailed information shared by the institution with the Ministry of the Interior on October 27, 2022 and on August 4, 2023. They claimed that AAP violated FCRA rules and other applicable legal provisions and that AAP received foreign funds.

Under the law, political parties are prohibited from obtaining funds from any foreign source.

According to the document, AAP received donations from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Kuwait and Bryce Darussalam. The papers also claim that many donors are hidden and that funds are deposited directly into the party’s IDBI bank account.

ED found suspected violations in an investigation into an international cartel, heroin smuggling from Pakistan to India. The agency searched for the then-AAP MLA house, from Bholath, Punjab, Sukhpal Singh Khaira, who was called to the defendant to face trial and his assistant. It allegedly caught a paper containing details of foreign donations.

The agency allegedly received a total of $1,19,000 in foreign donations. Mr Khaira allegedly revealed in a statement that the money was collected through AAP during a U.S. fundraising campaign organized by AAP before the Punjab parliamentary elections from April to May 2017 to 2017.

The emergency department allegedly found that 155 people donated Rs 40.4 billion using passport numbers abroad; 71 people used 21 mobile phones, with a total donation of about Rs 99.9 million in 256 matches; and 75 donated 148 times using 15 credit cards over Rs 1.92 million.

In 2016, volunteers from AAP overseas India and in different countries were given the goal of charging Rs 50 crore. A total of Rs 51,15,044 were used for the email ID and mobile phone number of 19 Canadian nationals. However, their names and nationalities are allegedly hidden.