Aakar Patel gets court summons in Bengaluru

BENGALURU: A special court has issued summons against Aakar Patel, director/CEO of Amnesty International India Pvt Ltd (AIIPL), and two others in connection with a money-laundering case. The case was registered based on a complaint by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Apart from Patel, Avinash Kumar, executive director of Indians for Amnesty International Trust, and G Ananthapadmanabhan, former CEO of AIIPL, have been summoned to appear on June 27. Santhosh Gajanan Bhat, special judge for CBI cases, Bengaluru, has also directed registration of the complaint as a special case.
The allegation is that Amnesty India used commercial methods such as service contract, advance income and FDI through automatic route and received Rs 36 crore remittance in the form of FDI from UK-based entities, without approval from the ministry of home affairs and in violation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act. tnn