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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.

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

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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

Mayank Kumar -
ThePrint analyses financial records of PPK NewsClick Studio Private Limited, which owns NewsClick, for the period from 11 January 2018 to 31 March 2022.

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

Dishha Bagchi -
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

Bhadra Sinha -
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'.

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.
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