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The Enforcement Directorate connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026) said it has uncovered suspected misuse of overseas funds to power authorities policies and undermine India’s vigor security, during an enquiry nether the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) allegedly involving Ghaziabad-based Satat Sampada Private Limited (SSPL).
On January 5, the bureau searched assorted premises linked to SSPL successful the nationalist superior portion arsenic portion of an ongoing probe into suspicious overseas inward remittances amounting to implicit ₹6 crore betwixt 2021 and 2025, received by the company. It is tally by a mates named Harjeet Singh and Jyoti Awasthi, said the ED statement.
Sharing the inheritance of SSPL directors, the bureau said Mr. Singh was “a self-proclaimed clime activist” and his woman was antecedently engaged with the Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA).
Mr. Singh’s allegedly visited Pakistan successful February 2025 for the “Breathe Pakistan Summit”, and Bangladesh successful December 2025 during a play of “anti-India protests”. In Bangladesh, helium allegedly delivered a lecture astatine Sher-e-Bangla University “without immoderate authoritative invitation and met assorted individuals unconnected to the stated purpose”. The backing for these trips is besides nether scrutiny, said the agency.
It alleged that the remittances nether investigation, labelled arsenic “consultancy charges”, were from overseas entities including Climate Action Network (CAN) and STAND.EARTH etc., which had received immense funds from anterior notation class non-government organisations (NGOs) “like Rockfellar Philanthropy Advisors”. Such entities necessitate explicit clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs for backing activities successful the country.
“However, cross-verification of filings made by the remitters overseas indicates that the funds were really intended to beforehand the docket of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (FF-NPT) wrong India,” the ED alleged.
The bureau said FF-NPT was a projected planetary pact aiming to signifier retired fossil substance production. “While presented arsenic a clime initiative, its adoption could exposure India to ineligible challenges successful planetary forums similar the International Court of Justice and severely compromise the nation’s vigor information and economical development,” the ED added.
Alleging that SSPL publically projected itself arsenic an agro-based institution engaged successful promoting integrated farming and selling integrated produce, the ED said its probe suggested that it was alternatively a beforehand enactment and that the company’s superior enactment appeared to beryllium “channelling overseas funds to tally narratives furthering the FF-NPT origin successful India, connected behalf of overseas influencer groups”.
According to the agency, earlier 2020-21 the institution operated astatine a nonaccomplishment with minimal consultancy revenue. “Post-2021, coinciding with the receipt of implicit ₹6.5 crore successful overseas remittances, SSPL turned profitable by booking these funds arsenic gross from ‘consultancy services’ and ‘agro-product sales’. The shareholders of SSPL, Harjeet Singh and Ms. Jyoti Awasthi, diverted funds received from overseas NGOs to their idiosyncratic accounts for backstage use,” it besides alleged.
During the searches connected the residential premises of Mr. Singh successful Ghaziabad, the ED besides seized “a ample cache of Indian and foreign-made liquor, beyond the permissible limits”. The substance was reported to the Uttar Pradesh State Excise Department, aft which helium was arrested for allegedly violating the State’s excise laws.
