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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.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi named in ED’s chargesheet in money laundering case

ANI -
Chargesheet mentions her role in purchasing 5 acres of agricultural land in Faridabad from a Delhi-based real estate agent, HL Pahwa, in 2006 and selling it back to him in February 2010.

Robert Vadra ‘renovated, stayed at’ London property under probe in money laundering case, says ED

Bismee Taskin -
Agency's supplementary prosecution complaint filed in PMLA case links Vadra to absconding arms dealer and fugitive Sanjay Bhandari, says the London property is a 'proceeds of crime'.

ED registers case against its own officer jailed in Tamil Nadu on bribery charge

Mayank Kumar -
Ankit Tiwari and his team had allegedly demanded bribes from several individuals to close their ED-related cases. He was posted in the central agency's Madurai sub-zonal office.

ED arrests 5 ‘key’ PFI members, already in custody in NIA case, to probe money laundering

Mayank Kumar -
The five were aware of processes & activities connected with proceeds of crime & were arrested under PMLA, ED informs court. Gets custody for six days.

‘Summons illegal, politically motivated,’ Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal replies to ED

PTI -
ED summoned Kejriwal for excise policy-linked money laundering case Thursday. However, Wednesday he left for an undisclosed location for 10-day Vipassana meditation course.

ED summons Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, Lalu Prasad for questioning in money laundering case

PTI -
Tejashwi has been asked to depose on 22 Dec, Prasad has been asked to appear on 27 Dec to record their statements under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

ED can continue probe under PMLA even if police drop scheduled offences, says SC

Bhadra Sinha -
SC was hearing civil servant Saumya Chaurasia’s appeal against Chhattisgarh HC’s refusal to grant her bail. Chaurasia has been accused of being involved in alleged Rs 540-crore coal scam.

‘Ties to liquor barons, exorbitant profits’ — ED summons Kejriwal again in ‘excise policy scam’ probe

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was earlier summoned by ED on 2 November but chose to skip. CBI is conducting parallel probe into Delhi govt’s now-withdrawn liquor policy.

SC extends AAP leader Satyendar Jain’s interim bail till 8 January in money laundering case

PTI -
ED arrested Jain 30 May last year through 4 firms allegedly linked to him. He was arrested on the basis of CBI FIR lodged against him in 2017 under Prevention of Corruption Act.

Dubai police arrests Mahadev betting app co-owner Ravi Uppal, ED ‘starts extradition process’

Ananya Bhardwaj -
ED officer says search on also for partner Sourabh Chandrakar, and that 'everyone knows he too is in Dubai', adds the two men 'had been running their operations from Dubai'.
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