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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.

‘Congress should shed arrogance, become a team player to defeat BJP,’ BRS leader K. Kavitha

ThePrint Team -
Kavitha is in Delhi for a one-day hunger strike on the Women’s Reservation Bill. She will face the ED on 11 March in the Delhi liquor-policy scam.

Chhattisgarh ED raids were aimed at hurting Congress leaders’ morale, writes Urdu press 

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‘Genius gone rogue’: Rise and fall of Kerala IAS officer M. Sivasankar, arrested for 3rd time

Anand Kochukudy -
This month, ED arrested Sivasankar, the powerful ex-principal secretary of CM Pinarayi Vijayan, for his alleged role in a housing scam linked to infamous gold smuggling case.

‘They are scared’, says Baghel on ED raids at Congress leaders’ offices ahead of Raipur plenary

Ishadrita Lahiri -
Enforcement Directorate Monday raided at least 14 locations in Chhattisgarh's Raipur & Bhilai, including residences & offices of Congress leaders, in connection with coal levy scam case.

ED conducts searches at Chhattisgarh locations linked to Congress leaders in coal levy scam

PTI -
The raids come days before the three-day plenary session of the Congress party from 24-26 February in state capital Raipur.

Arrested YSRCP MP’s son a part of ‘South group’ that paid ‘Rs 100 cr’ to AAP, influenced policy: ED

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Raghava Reddy was part of group whose prominent member allegedly include Telangana CM's daughter K. Kavitha. He had key role in formulation of now retracted excise policy, says ED.

‘Rs 100 cr kickbacks, cartels & Facetime call with Kejriwal’: ED chargesheet in liquor scam case

Ananya Bhardwaj -
ED alleged top AAP leaders framed Delhi govt's new excise policy to 'generate & channel illegal funds to themselves'. Arvind Kejriwal termed chargesheet as 'fiction'.

In Bengal, cops & central agencies play chor-police, trade FIRs — ‘pawns in politics’

Madhuparna Das -
State police and central agencies have traded FIRs on murder, criminal conspiracy, and more in last few weeks. Experts blame ‘political control’, warn it’s weakening the steel frame.

Allahabad HC grants bail to Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan

PTI -
In September, the apex court granted him bail in connection with having links with the Popular Front of India. But he remained in jail due to the money laundering case filed by the ED.

ED arrests UP gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari in money laundering case

PTI -
Ansari, a five-time former MLA, was lodged in a jail at Banda in Uttar Pradesh. The 59-year-old was questioned by the ED in this case last year.
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