The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it has attached Rs 1.77 crore of journalist Rana Ayyub in connection with a money laundering case lodged against her for allegedly misusing funds collected in the name of help and charity through a website -- ketto.com. An ED official said Ayyub had allegedly misused the funds, and diverted them into other account for personal expenses. ED sources said she cheated donors in a pre-planned manner.

"Funds totalling to Rs 2,69,44,680 was raised on Ketto by Rana Ayyub. These funds were transferred in the bank accounts of her sister/father. Out of this amount, Rs 72,01,786 was transferred in her own bank account; Rs 37,15,072 in her sister Iffat Shaikh's account and Rs 1,60,27,822 in her father Mohd Ayyub Waquif's bank account. All these funds from her sister's and father's account were subsequently transferred to her own account," read an ED document accessed by IANS.