The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested a chartered accountant attached to a private hospital in Coimbatore in connection with the nationwide crackdown against officials of the Union Home Ministry’s Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) Division and others for alleged backdoor facilitation of registration and renewal of licences for NGOs to receive foreign aid.
The arrested person has been identified as Vageesh, a chartered accountant who worked with Ganga Medical Centre and Hospital Pvt. Ltd. on behalf of Ganga Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (GOREF). The CBI produced him before a special court in Coimbatore on Wednesday.
Vageesh is the ninth accused in the First Information Report registered by the CBI against 36 accused, including FCRA Division officials, promoters/representatives of different NGOs and middlemen.
