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TopicEnforcement Directorate

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.

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The ED, in a supplementary complaint in its case against arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari, said Saturday that his Bryanston Square property was in use by Robert Vadra.

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Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui, Managing Trustee of Al-Falah Charitable Trust, was arrested hours after ED searched nearly 25 locations in Delhi-NCR in connection with its money-laundering probe.

Betting app probe: ‘Email trail on BCCI contracts’ at centre of ED’s charges against Dhawan & Raina

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On Thursday, the ED attached former India cricketer Suresh Raina’s Rs 6.64 crore, and earlier, it had attached Shikhar Dawan’s Rs 4.45 crore.

ED attaches Rs 11 cr worth of assets of Suresh Raina, Shikhar Dhawan in PMLA probe into betting app

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Mutual fund investments of Rs 6.64 crore held in Raina's name and an immovable property valued at Rs 4.5 crore in Dhawan's name were attached, says ED spokesperson.

FATF cites ED’s restitution to Rose Valley, IREO depositors in paper on global best practices

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3 yrs after IPO, ED digs out Varanium Cloud’s ‘pump & dump scheme, 150 shell firms, 400 mule accounts’

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Quashing plea by AgustaWestland accused, Delhi HC flags ‘disturbing trend’ of media sensationalism

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Judgment says even the most innocuous remarks by the court, which may or may not be connected with the case being heard, are sometimes reported to merely create sensation.

In another order expanding PMLA scope, HC notes how ‘legal transaction’ can generate ‘proceeds of crime’

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Delhi HC was hearing ED's plea against a single-judge order that had quashed attachment of assets worth Rs 122.74 cr of Prakash Industries, the company allotted the Fatehpur coal block.
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