ED conduted raids at Amnesty International's Bengaluru office (Photo/ANI)
Amnesty International's Bengaluru office was raided by Enforcement Directorate on Thursday evening. According to sources, the raids were conducted in connection with a foreign exchange contravention case against human rights watchdog.
The searches were conducted under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and the central probe agency is looking for documents.
The ED is looking at a possible and alleged violation of the FEMA linked to an earlier Union home ministry's probe into the NGO's accounts related to Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) funds.
The ED had frozen over a dozen bank accounts of environmental NGO Greenpeace and its linked entity after it conducted searches at their premises in Bengaluru on charges of alleged forex violations.
(With inputs from PTI)
