On 10th of February Enforcement Directorate attached assets worth Rs 1.77 crores of Rana Ayyub under the Money Laundering Case. The Enforcement Directorate in its attachment order said, “Rana Ayyub has cheated the general Public Donors in a pre-planned manner and with the intention to cheat the general public donors”. Rana Ayyub raised funds for relief activities but didn’t use the funds fully and kept the money for personal use. Only a small faction of money which was being raised in campaigns was used.

But there are many such names which deserve the same treatment. On 20th of August, Vijay Patel (username-@vijaygajera) wrote a brilliant thread on twitter exposing the Alt News. Vijay Patel used facts and evidences to show how Alt News founders use public donations for personal benefits.

1. Recently Pratik has requested donations by claiming that they are 6 lakhs short of what they need monthly. But When I have checked their annual report for the last 2 years, he didn’t use a single rupee from public donation as he has received huge grants.

2. In 2019 as per Pratik’s Tweet, He claims that he depends on public donation but didn’t say that he has received a huge grant of 1 crore from IPSMF and 10 lakhs from Infosys in 2018. Even 58 Lakhs were unutilized from both of these grants. It means he was lying.

3. When Someone has asked him to disclose their funding he said that they received just one small grant from IPSMF.But he is lying again. Grants from IPSMF were not small or not received just for one time.They have received a total of 1 core 84 lakhs in 2 grants of IPSMF. Picture 3.

4. Here are the full details. They didn’t need public funding in the last 2 years because they have grants and other income that are sufficient and more than their expenses.Even Pratik, Her Mother, and Zubair takes huge salaries which cost near about 50% of total expenses.

5. When I have visited their official website. They have put old data of 2017 under their ‘Transparency of funding’ section. To misguided people, they have put this old data and showing 3 lakhs funding from Zindabad trust of Arundhati Roy.

6. The question is why they are not updating their funding details and why they don’t show a huge amount received from IPSMF and Infosys? Why they don’t put their yearly data on their website?

7. Their FD was near about 13 lakh in 2018 which is now near about 1 crore 14 lakh in 2019.
from where they have received this 1 crore?

8. They have registered their firm under the tax-free category and they don’t pay a single rupee of tax for their huge income.

9. And here is the list of IPSMF donors.
And most of them knows how their funding is being used for propaganda.To look neutral they have included Swarajyamarg in their grantee’s list. All other are Leftist propaganda websites like The Caravan, The wire, The Print etc .

This time let’s point our gun towards Fault News and give them sleepless nights. Let’s punish them for their wrong deeds.

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