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 laundering case. The case was registered on a complaint by ED.
Avinash Kumar, executive director of Indians for Amnesty International Trust, and G Ananthapadmanabhan, former CEO of AIIPL, have also been summoned to appear on June 27. Santhosh Gajanan Bhat, the 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 UKbased entities, without approval from the home ministry and in violation of the FCRA.