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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 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.

After allies Malik, Deshmukh, ED targets Uddhav Thackeray’s brother-in-law, freezes assets

ThePrint Team -
Thackeray has been vocal in the past about the Centre ‘misusing its machinery to target opposition leaders’.

ED summons Mamata’s nephew, wife to Delhi in alleged coal smuggling case

ThePrint Team -
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been scathing of central agencies ever since her nephew surfaced in the crosshairs of CBI and ED.

Owning Dawood-linked properties, money laundering — what ED charges against Nawab Malik are

Manasi Phadke -
ED arrested Malik Wednesday after nearly 8 hours of questioning him at the agency’s Mumbai office. The court has granted the agency Malik’s custody till 3 March.

Washington Post shows support for Rana Ayyub, calls her ‘target of prejudiced investigations’

Anupriya Chatterjee -
Full page support statement issued Sunday comes after Enforcement Directorate attached attached funds worth Rs 1.77 crore in Ayyub's name, in alleged money laundering case.

ED files fresh chargesheet in money laundering case against Unitech group & its promoters

PTI -
Sanjay Chandra, Ajay Chandra, Ramesh Chandra, Preeti Chandra, Rajesh Malik & 66 other companies have been arrayed as accused in the chargesheet, according to Enforcement Directorate.

ED raids residence of Dawood Ibrahim’s sister in connection with money laundering

ANI -
Searches are being carried out by the Enforcement Directorate at several places linked to the people associated with the underworld in Mumbai, informed sources Tuesday.
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