{"id":797897,"date":"2021-01-12T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/01\/12\/hc-seeks-fiu-stand-on-paypal-plea-against-rs-96-lakh-penalty\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T12:08:39","slug":"hc-seeks-fiu-stand-on-paypal-plea-against-rs-96-lakh-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/01\/12\/hc-seeks-fiu-stand-on-paypal-plea-against-rs-96-lakh-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"HC seeks FIU stand on PayPal plea against Rs 96 lakh penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought response of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) India on American online payment gateway PayPal&#8217;s plea challenging the Rs 96 lakh penalty imposed on it for alleged violation of money laundering law. Justice Prathiba M Singh issued notice to the FIU and sought its stand on PayPal&#8217;s plea by February 26. <\/p>\n<p>The court also stayed the FIU order subject to PayPal maintaining records of all its transactions and depositing within two weeks in the high court a bank guarantee of Rs 96 lakh. <\/p>\n<p>The court also made the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) a party in the matter. <\/p>\n<p>It directed the RBI and the Ministry of Finance to constitute a committee of its representatives to take a policy decision at the highest level on whether such an entity can be considered as a reporting agency and would they be governed by the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought response of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) India on American online payment gateway PayPal&#8217;s plea challenging the Rs 96 lakh penalty imposed on it for alleged violation of money laundering law. Justice Prathiba M Singh issued notice to the FIU and sought its stand on PayPal&#8217;s plea by February 26. The court also stayed the FIU order subject to PayPal maintaining records of all its transactions and depositing within two weeks in the high court a bank guarantee of Rs 96 lakh. The court also made the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}