ED finally raids Harsh Mander's home, office! Money Laundering case registered; Read LRO's timescale in the case-

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided three locations linked to activist Harsh Mander. The raids, which began at 8 am, are connected to a money laundering probe based on a FIR (First Information Repot) filed by the Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police in February this year. Mander's home (in Vasant Kunj) and his office at the Centre for Equity Studies (in Adchini) were raided simultaneously, as were two children's homes run by his NGO.

 

 

The Legal Rights Observatory who had requested to cancel the FCRA license of the Centre for Equity Studies, NGO run by Mander, said in a tweet that the raids were carried out after hours after Mander and his wife had left for Germany; he has taken up a six-month fellowship at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.

 

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"Coincidentally Harsh Mander reached Robert Bosch Academy last night n many German Catholic Church bodies funding his NGO CES, which LRO had pointed out to HMO last year seeking action against his funding!", tweet by LRO read. The Delhi Police FIR, filed under instruction from the NCPCR, or National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, has alleged financial irregularities connected to the two children's homes - Umeed Aman Ghar (for boys) and Khushi Rainbow Home (for girls) - in Delhi's Mehrauli.

 

 

The Enforcement Directorate - which investigates large-scale financial crimes - is acting on this FIR by Delhi Police, which invoked charges like cheating, breach of trust and criminal conspiracy. As all three are 'scheduled offences', meaning the agency can take cognisance of the FIR and probe proceeds of the alleged crime linked to the FIR registered by Delhi Police.

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