Journalist Rana Ayyub was today stopped at the Mumbai airport while on her way to London based on a Lookout Circular issued by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case.
“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 International Center for Journalists. I was to travel to Italy right after to deliver the keynote address at the journalism festival on the Indian democracy,” the journalist tweeted.
“All these events with Dr. Julie Posetti, Doughty Street International and the journalism festival 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?” she said.
Ayyub has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate on April 1 for questioning in connection with the case.
In February, the financial probe agency attached Rs 1.77 crore belonging to the journalist. She had allegedly set aside Rs 50 lakh from Rs 2.77 crore she had raised for relief work to open a fixed deposit (FD) account in her name, the agency had found.
