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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.

ED arrests Bengal minister Jyotipriyo Mallick in case linked to ‘multi-core ration distribution scam’

PTI -
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday arrested West Bengal minister Jyotipriyo Mallick in a money laundering case linked to an alleged multi-core ration...

‘BJP fears Rajasthan loss’— Pilot questions ‘timing, intent’ of ED action against Congress leaders

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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot has questioned the “timing, purpose, and intent” of the Enforcement Directorate’s actions Thursday, including summons against Rajasthan...

‘Spreading fear’: Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot hits out after central probe agency summons son

ThePrint Team -
The Enforcement Directorate has asked Vaibhav Gehlot to depose on Friday in a case related to alleged contravention of the foreign exchange law.

ED raids Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra’s house in exam paper leak case

PTI -
Sitting MLA Dotasra's premises in Sikar & Jaipur being raided as part of a money laundering investigation. Party candidate from Mahua seat in Dausa, some others also being searched.

‘No live-streaming of raids’ — Calcutta HC issues guidelines for media and ED, says not a gag order

Sreyashi Dey -
The Calcutta HC guidelines came in a plea filed by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira Banerjee after she was interrogated by ED in alleged ‘cash-for-jobs’ scam.

NewsClick owner’s earnings used to be all from India. Within a year, this flipped to 99% from abroad

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Marxist who ‘funds Left groups’ with his millions — who is Neville Roy Singham, NewsClick’s ‘China link’

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ED alleges Singham not only financed NewsClick but also exchanged incriminating emails about China with editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha, other journalists, activists & CPI(M) leaders.

‘Clandestine, vindictive’: What SC said in scathing order on ED arrest of realty firm M3M’s promoters

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Basant & Pankaj Bansal were arrested under Prevention of Money Laundering Act on 14 June 2023. Their arrest was quashed by the Supreme Court this week.

‘Link between’ Sisodia & accused-turned-approver — how ED connected AAP’s Sanjay Singh to excise case

Mayank Kumar -
Enforcement Directorate's 4th supplementary prosecution complaint claims Singh was 'extremely close' to Dinesh Arora. Atishi says ED 'survives on false allegations against AAP leaders'.
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