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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 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

PTI -
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.

Secret NSE phone-tap or ‘financial fraud’? Inside story of ED case that’s snared ex-IPS officer

+TFP Ananya Bhardwaj -
iSec Services, firm associated with former IPS officer Sanjay Pandey, accused of illegally tapping phones of NSE employees on direction of bourse's top officials. Pandey denies any illegality.

Opposition divided on CBI raid on Delhi Deputy CM Sisodia, blame AAP’s ‘eerie silence’ in the past

Abhishek Dey -
AAP's silence on central agencies targeting opposition, differences among allies on Sisodia reflects conflict over ambition of leaders wanting to be the face challenging Modi in 2024.

ED raids multiple places linked to UP’s mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari

PTI -
A five-time former MLA of the BSP, Ansari is held by the ED for money laundering including 49 other charges of land grabbing, murder, and extortion.

Govt tells agencies to coordinate crackdown on Chinese firms as it has ‘security concerns’ too

+TFP Shubham Batra -
Some firms registered in India but 'taking instructions from China' said to have data saved in cloud servers, where information on Indian entities’ accounts is shared with Chinese parent firms.

ED accuses actress Jacqueline Fernandez of laundering money in Sukesh Chandrasekhar fraud case

ThePrint Team -
The probe agency had earlier said the conman gave expensive gifts to the actress from the swindled money – amounting to Rs 5.71 crore.

‘Why can’t ED question someone if it has doubts’: Kerala HC asks CPM leader Thomas Isaac

PTI -
Taking note of Isaac's contentions, the court told the probe agency that privacy of an individual cannot be 'violated' and asked on what basis it was asking for his personal details.

CBI makes first arrests in West Bengal teacher recruitment scam, 2 senior officials in custody

Sreyashi Dey -
The Enforcement Directorate has also arrested former Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee, who was Education Minister when the ‘cash-for-jobs’ recruitments took place.

‘ED may raid, but can’t defend cases’ — Urdu press flags agency’s ‘poor conviction rates’

Abantika Ghosh -
ThePrint’s round-up of how the Urdu media covered various news events through the week, and the editorial positions some of them took.
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