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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.

‘Rs 7-8 lakh was going rate for teacher’s post,’ says ED chargesheet in Bengal SSC case

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ED claims 'common people' had to pay lakhs for jobs in schools when Partha Chatterjee was Bengal education minister, alleges he used shell companies to launder ‘tainted money’.

BJP & Shah bad, but Modi good? Why Mamata is going easy on PM over CBI, ED ‘misuse’

Sreyashi Dey -
West Bengal govt Monday passed a resolution against 'excesses' of federal agencies like CBI & ED. However, CM Mamata Banerjee also said, 'I don’t believe PM Modi is behind this'.

CBI arrests North Bengal University VC Subiresh Bhattacharyya in teacher recruitment scam

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Bhattacharyya is also a former School Service Commission (SSC) Chairman. His arrest come after his residence and office were searched by the agency in August this year.

ED, CBI harassing everyone, don’t understand what this liquor scam is, says Arvind Kejriwal

PTI -
Delhi CM remarks came amid raids by the Enforcement Directorate at 40 locations across the country in connection with alleged irregularities in the AAP govt's liquor policy.

ED freezes RS 46 cr worth funds of Easebuzz, Razorpay, Cashfree, Paytm in Chinese loan app case

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This comes a day after ED carried out search operations across the country under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, in an investigation related to an app-based token named HPZ.

ED stops TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s sister-in-law from flying abroad

PTI -
Maneka Gambhir was on Saturday evening stopped by the ED and handed over summons seeking her appearance before the agency on 12 September at 11 am.

ED summons Trinamool’s Abhishek Banerjee for interrogation in ‘coal pilferage scam’

PTI -
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee had on Monday apprehended that the central agencies might send notices to her nephew Abhishek, considered the second in command in the party.

Arvind Kejriwal is shrewd. Congress is wrong on Sisodia raid. And BJP is pushing its luck

+TFP Vir Sanghvi -
Congress must decide whether it can afford to applaud the actions of ED and CBI, which are being used against it, just because it doesn't like AAP.

ED conducts multiple raids in Jharkhand, investigates alleged illegal mining case

PTI -
The searches were launched after the ED filed a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against Pankaj Mishra, a political aide of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.

SC agrees to list plea seeking review of ED’s powers under PMLA judgment

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The plea seeks to review the Enforcement Directorate's powers related to arrest, attachment of property involved in money laundering, search and seizure under the PMLA Act.
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