The Enforcement Directorate has filed a FEMA case against news organisation BBC India for foreign exchange breaches, reports said.
The federal probe agency has also called for documents and the recording of statements of some company executives under provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), they said.
The probe is essentially looking at purported foreign direct investment (FDI) violations by the company, they said. The move comes in the backdrop of the income tax department surveying BBC office premises in Delhi in February.
The I-T department's administrative body, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), had previously stated that the income and profits reported by different BBC group entities were "not commensurate" with the scope of their operations in India and that tax had not been paid on some remittances made by its foreign entities.