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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.

Centre widens ED power, 15 more ministries ordered to share intel with probe agency

Debdutta Chakraborty -
National Intelligence Grid, Military Intelligence also required to disclose information to ED, giving the agency widespread access to data involving financial fraud.

‘Rigged’, says BJP after the wife of TMC MLA hits Rs 1 crore jackpot in lottery 

Sreyashi Dey -
In August, Jorasanko MLA Vivek Gupta’s wife won lottery run by Dear Lottery, organised by govts of Sikkim and Nagaland. The lottery is currently facing ED’s money-laundering probe.

ED files charge sheet against Rana Ayyub for money laundering, accuses her of using public funds

PTI -
The agency said more than Rs 2 crore funds raised online for slum dwellers, Covid 19 victims among others, were received in Ayyub's family's accounts & only Rs 29 lakh was used for relief work.

ED arrests IAS officer Sameer Vishnoi, 2 others in money laundering case in Chhattisgarh

PTI -
This comes after the ED launched multiple raids linked to alleged illegal levy extorted from transporters in the state by purported nexus of govt officials, businessmen & private entities.

CD with roll numbers, letter to Mamata, bank deposits — ED evidence against arrested TMC MLA

Sreyashi Dey -
Manik Bhattacharya is the second TMC MLA to be arrested in West Bengal’s SSC case, after Partha Chatterjee. ED claims he was one of the ‘key persons’ in alleged cash-for-jobs scam.

ED raids offices of Coda Payments in money laundering case, freezes assets worth Rs 68.53 cr

Nishit Navin -
The ED said it had started an investigation following complaints of unauthorised deductions from the accounts of online game users.

What is Chhattisgarh’s ‘PDS scam’ & why ED wants SC to allow a CBI investigation into it

Bhadra Sinha -
Alleged PDS scam was unearthed in 2015 by Chhattisgarh's Anti-Corruption Bureau. SC will hear ED's plea to transfer the probe to CBI on 26 September.

‘PFI gets youths to join ISIS, LeT & had planned to disrupt Modi’s visit,’ ED & NIA tell courts

Ananya Bhardwaj -
The agencies have sought custody of the 106 people arrested overnight Thursday in a crackdown on the Popular Front of India.

‘Terror funding, recruitment, training camps’— why NIA & ED arrested 106 PFI members overnight

Ananya Bhardwaj -
New Delhi: Terror funding, recruitment, and organising camps for “imparting training to commit terrorist acts, promote enmity between different groups on the basis of...

Over 100 arrested in anti-terror raids across 11 states, NIA says ‘largest ever’

PTI -
The arrested belonged to the Popular Front of India (PFI) and were detained due to terror-funding activities. The ED has been investigating the 'financial links' of the PFI.
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