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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.

ED seizes Rs 55.51 billion from Chinese company Xiaomi for forex violation

Sankalp Phartiyal -
The Enforcement Directorate took control of the bank accounts of Xiaomi Technology India under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act.

ED seizes Rs 5,551 crore from Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi under FEMA law

ANI -
The seized amount is lying in the bank accounts of Xiaomi Technology India Pvt Ltd, which started its operations in India in 2014 and started remitting the money in 2015.

As non-BJP states retaliate to Modi govt’s ‘triple weapon’ attacks, a new MAD doctrine rises

Shekhar Gupta -
Non-BJP chief ministers are retaliating. If Centre can use its agencies to threaten, intimidate and jail its rivals, so can they. The fightback has become an established pattern and will get more intense.

‘Fabrication of court order’: ED files FIR against Kolkata Police, Centre-Bengal battle escalates

+TFP Madhuparna Das -
ED officials claim in FIR that Kolkata Police tampered with court order to make Joint Director Kapil Raj provide a voice sample without his consent.

Why ED is accusing Amway of ‘pyramid fraud’, duping customers of ‘hard-earned money’

Bismee Taskin -
Enforcement Directorate attached assets of Amway India worth over Rs 757.77 crore Monday. ED alleges firm's focus is on signing people up for get-rich schemes, not selling products.

ED attaches Amway India’s assets worth over Rs 757 cr in money-laundering probe

PTI -
The federal agency issued a statement Monday, alleging that the company was perpetrating a 'scam' by running a pyramid 'fraud' in the guise of direct-selling MLM network.

ED summons five ‘close associates’ of Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio in money laundering case

Angana Chakrabarti -
One of the 'associates', Kuovisieo Rio, is special assistant in Nagaland CMO, while others are known to be CM’s 'right hand' and 'partner in contract works'.

ED grills J&K leader Omar Abdullah in ‘money-laundering case’, ‘vicious vilification,’ says party

ThePrint Team -
Abdullah’s party National Conference described the exercise as ‘political’, affirming there was no ‘wrong-doing’ on Abdullah’s part.

Journalist Rana Ayyub ‘stopped’ from flying out of India for ‘ignoring’ earlier ED summons

Purva Chitnis -
Ayyub claims she received ED summons ‘very curiously’ only after she was stopped at Mumbai airport. Look-out circular was issued due to alleged ‘non-compliance’ of summons.

ED stops Rana Ayyub from boarding flight to London at Mumbai airport

PTI -
Ayyub said she had to deliver a speech on intimidation of journalists at an International Center for Journalists event. ED wants to question her in a money laundering case against her.
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