{"id":2953,"date":"2025-08-01T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:03:16","slug":"indian-authorities-raid-soros-backed-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2953","title":{"rendered":"Indian Authorities Raid Soros-Backed Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>India Probes Soros-Linked Funds Over Forex Violations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided eight sites in Bengaluru investigating foreign exchange violations involving George Soros\u2019s Open Society Foundations (OSF) and its impact arm, the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF). The probe focuses on allegations that OSF misused foreign direct investment (FDI) through Indian subsidiaries, bypassing regulatory restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur teams carried out raids\u2026 to investigate contraventions in foreign direct investment rules,\u201d an officer told&nbsp;<em>Hindustan Times<\/em>. Another added, \u201cOSF set up subsidiaries in India and brought in funds in the form of FDI and consultancy fees\u2026 used to fund activities of the NGOs which is a FEMA contravention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs had restricted OSF donations since 2016. \u201cPreliminary investigation has revealed that OSF was put under the prior reference category,\u201d the officer noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OSF, operating in India since 1999, allegedly sent nearly $3 billion to various entities across the country, according to media reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India Probes Soros-Linked Funds Over Forex Violations India\u2019s Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided eight sites in Bengaluru investigating foreign exchange violations involving George Soros\u2019s Open Society Foundations (OSF) and its impact arm, the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF). The probe focuses on allegations that OSF misused foreign direct investment (FDI) through Indian subsidiaries, bypassing regulatory restrictions&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2953\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}