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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.

‘Money laundered via lottery tickets’ — ED chargesheet against TMC’s Anubrata Mondal in ‘cattle smuggling scam’

Sreyashi Dey -
In chargesheet filed Thursday, ED details how TMC's Birbhum district chief Anubrata Mondal, his daughter Sukanya and others allegedly laundered proceeds of the racket.

Manappuram Finance says ED action against promoter, not company

Ira Dugal -
Manappuram's promoter, VP Nandakumar, claimed that the probe was not related to the company but a private entity called Manappuram Agro Farms, which is no longer in existence.

ED questions SC verdict on incomplete probe not defeating default bail right — ‘contrary to binding decisions’

Bhadra Sinha -
Enforcement Directorate's assertion came in appeal against Delhi HC order giving bail to an accused in money laundering case, relying on SC's Ritu Chhabaria verdict on default bail.

Probing Bengal ‘SSC scam’, ED found parallel ‘municipal recruitment racket’. What its report says

Sreyashi Dey -
CBI Monday lodged FIR over alleged 'Rs 200-cr' scam, days after Calcutta HC order to probe. ED status report says it stumbled upon 'racket' while investigating teachers’ recruitment 'scam'.

‘Kept behind bars over 2 yrs without trial’ — court order granting bail to Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor

Akshat Jain -
Judge noted Kapoor's ‘undue incarceration’ in loan fraud case and said CBI & ED had ‘never taken any care to follow the true spirit of PMLA'.

Now, ED launches FEMA probe against BBC, questions staff 

Ananya Bhardwaj -
The I-T Department had in February carried out a survey on BBC offices in India to probe alleged irregularities in ‘transfer pricing’ and ‘international taxation’. 

‘Let him come to Assam…’: Himanta hits out at Kejriwal after Delhi CM’s ‘all corrupt in one party’ barb

Karishma Hasnat -
In Delhi assembly, Kejriwal named his Assam counterpart as being among those who joined BJP on the back of graft allegations. Himanta calls him a 'coward in hiding'.
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