It seems Rana Ayyub will now need a burqa and not hijab to cover her face from the fraud she carried out. Rana Ayyub has carried out a Charity fund scandal which amounts to Rs 1.77 crore.

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. There were three campaigns mentioned in the FIR, pursuant to which, Rana Ayyub had raised crores from the public.(a) Funds for slum dwellers and farmers during April- May 2020.(b) Relief work for Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra during June- Sept 2020. (c) Help for Covid-19 impacted people in India during May-June 2021. Also as a journalist she didn’t have the rights to raise funds. She received funds from outside the country. She didn’t have the required permission under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010. She raised funds under the platform of Ketto.

The co-founder of an outfit, Hindu IT Cell was the one to file a case against Rana Ayyub at Indirapuram police station. Vikas Sankrityayan has alleged irregularities in three fundraising campaigns on Ketto that he attributes to Ayyub – funds to help COVID-hit people in India during the second wave, funds for slum dwellers and farmers in April-May 2020 and relief work for Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra in June-September 2020. The charges against Ayyub were under section 4 (punishment for money laundering) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and section 66D of the Information Technology Act (punishment for cheating by personation by using computer resources) and Sections 403 (dishonest misappropriation of property), 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust), 418 (cheating), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Indian Penal Code were also included in the FIR.

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