New Delhi: Journalist Rana Ayyub was stopped by Enforcement Directorate (ED) from flying to London on Tuesday.
She is an accused in an alleged money laundering case being investigated by Ead. She was stopped to not board the flight from Mumbai citing an ongoing investigation of foreign funding rules by Ayyub while collecting donations for COVID-19 relief.
“I was stopped today at the Indian immigration while I was about to board my flight to London to deliver my speech on the intimidation of journalists with @ICFJ,” she tweeted.
She further said that I was to travel to Italy right after to deliver the keynote address at the @journalismfest on the Indian democracyAll these events with @julieposetti @DoughtyStIntl @journalismfest have been planned and publicised all over my social media for weeks. Yet, curiously the Enforcement directorate summon arrived in my mail much after I was stopped at the immigration. What do you fear ?.