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Topic: Enforcement Directorate

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is a central agency working directly under the Ministry of Finance, tasked with investigating and enforcing laws related to financial offenses. Its origin goes back to 1 May, 1956, when an Enforcement Unit was formed in the Department of Economic Affairs for handling Exchange Control Laws violations under Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947. The following year, this Unit was renamed as Enforcement Directorate.

The ED’s mandate encompasses investigating offenses under significant legislative frameworks such as the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the Foreign Exchange Management Act of 1999 (FEMA), and the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act of 2018 (FEOA). The agency investigates individuals and entities involved in financial wrongdoing. This may include tracing illicit funds, seizing assets acquired through illegal means, and prosecuting offenders to ensure accountability and deterrence.

Headquartered in New Delhi, the ED operates through a network of regional offices in Mumbai, Chennai, Chandigarh, Kolkata.

In remand application for Amanatullah Khan, ED cites ‘false papers’, seized diary & ‘proxy firms’

Mayank Kumar -
While one sale deed showed value of property at Rs 13.4 crore, a copy of another from seized mobile of his associate pegs it at Rs 36 crore, alleges federal agency.

Investigation objective, not subjective: Court raps ED for naming person 1st as witness, then accused

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Calling for checks & balances in the power to arrest people, the judge said there should be rules or SOPs in place to avoid situations where officers take opposite views in a case.

Delhi court sends AAP MLA Amanat Ullah Khan to 4 days ED custody in Waqf Board money laundering case

ANI -
Arrested in an alleged money laundering case over purchase of a 1200-square-yard Rs 36 crore Okhla plot, Khan can have legal meetings, home-cooked food, and medicine during ED custody.

Bail granted to AAP’s Vijay Nair, here’s why other key Delhi excise policy accused got relief from court

Khadija Khan -
Nair is fourth person to be granted bail in the case after Delhi's former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, BRS leader K Kavitha & AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh.

What’s the 8-yr-old Delhi Waqf Board case in which AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan has been arrested by ED

Mayank Kumar -
Okhla MLA was arrested after being questioned for 6 hrs. In January, ED had filed a chargesheet over alleged irregularities in recruitment in Delhi Waqf Board under his chairmanship.

ED arrests AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in money-laundering case

PTI -
The case against the 50-year-old legislator stems from two FIRs, one by the CBI in alleged Wakf Board irregularities and another by the Delhi Police related to disproportionate assets.

‘Will arrest me’: says AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan as ED raids his premises

PTI -
Several AAP leaders, including Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh, hit out at the BJP government, saying agencies are targeting those who raised their voice against the ruling party.

Can incriminating statements by PMLA accused in one case be used in another? What SC said

Apoorva Mandhani -
The top court bench was hearing an appeal filed by Prem Prakash, an alleged aide of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren, who has now been granted bail in a money laundering case.

Body on Ghaziabad rly tracks found to be of ED officer questioned in bribery case. GRP says suicide

Mayank Kumar -
ED officer Alok Kumar Pankaj had been questioned by CBI in connection with Mumbai businessman's bribery complaint. FIR didn't name him as accused but as part of team that sought bribe.

In HC relief to Farooq Abdullah, rap to ED. ‘Conspiracy alone not scheduled offence, can’t invoke PMLA’

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Quashing ED's chargesheets against Abdullah & others in Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association scam case, J&K High Court noted that ED can't 'preempt the outcome of an exercise'.
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