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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.

Ranbir Kapoor summoned by ED in Mahadev betting app money laundering case

PTI -
ED officials said the agency had alleged Kapoor received money from the promoters of the app for performing at the wedding of one of the promoters.

ED summons TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee on 9 October in West Bengal school jobs scam

PTI -
The probe agency also summoned Banerjee’s wife Rujira for questioning on 11 October. Earlier, it had summoned TMC leader’s parents Amit and Lata Banerjee to appear this week.

ED raids AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s house in Delhi’s liquor policy case

Mayank Kumar -
Sources in the agency said premises of several others potentially involved with the alleged scam had also been searched.

ED expected to be ‘transparent, not vindictive’, must furnish grounds of arrest to accused, says SC

Bhadra Sinha -
Apex court is also seized of petitions seeking review of its July 2022 judgment upholding wide & sweeping powers entitled to Enforcement Directorate under Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

‘Nature of employment, Delhi riots coverage’ — what journalists were questioned on in NewsClick case

Mayank Kumar -
Journalists say they were also asked about covering 2020-21 farmers' protests & raids were carried out at their homes for 3 hours, as police probe alleged receipt of funds by NewsClick from China.

ED raids AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s Delhi premises in excise policy money laundering case

PTI -
It is alleged that the Delhi govt's 2021-22 excise policy to grant licences to liquor traders allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it.

NewsClick editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha & HR head arrested under UAPA, police probe ‘proceeds of crime’

Bismee Taskin -
As many as 46 people were questioned by Delhi Police while office of news portal was sealed in connection with its probe.

ED raids multiple locations linked to members of banned PFI across Kerala

PTI -
The raids were launched to ascertain the alleged source of funding for the banned outfit, according to sources.

SC rejects Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s plea against ED summons

PTI -
Soren was interrogated for over nine hours by the ED on 17 November last year in connection with another money-laundering case linked to alleged illegal mining in the state.

ED chief Sanjay Mishra steps down after controversial tenure, Rahul Navin named officiating director

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Mishra was granted four extensions after being appointed director of Enforcement Directorate on 19 November, 2018, for a two-year term.
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