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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.

SCERT ‘scam’ probe: ED raids locations in Assam ‘linked’ to retd IAS officer

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Matter stems from FIR lodged by Assam CM’s Special Vigilance Cell which subsequently filed chargesheet against now-retired IAS officer Sewali Devi Sharma and others in 2023.

Anil Ambani’s firms were under scanner of banks & SEBI before ED tightened noose around him

Mayank Kumar -
SEBI, SBI have raised several red flags over alleged fund diversion, questionable accounting and round-tripping by entities linked to the Reliance Group and its chairman.

ED raids Delhi call centres for duping US citizens. Rs 100 cr foreign remittances under probe

ANI -
The central probe agency will conduct search & seizure operations at 3 locations in the Khanpur area of New Delhi in connection with an alleged international cyber fraud case.

ED issues Lookout Circular against Anil Ambani in loan fraud case, hours after summons for questioning

Mayank Kumar -
Reliance Group chairman asked to appear at ED headquarters in New Delhi for recording statement. ED's money laundering probe is based on two cases lodged by CBI in September 2022.

ED’s 1st raid in Andaman & Nicobar: A Rs 200 crore cooperative bank ‘scam’ linked to former Congress MP

Mayank Kumar -
Congress leader and former MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma is prime accused in the case related to alleged irregularities in Andaman and Nicobar State Cooperative (ANSC) Bank.

Actor Prakash Raj appears before ED in online betting linked PMLA case

PTI -
During the questioning with ED in online betting case, Raj said the he did the assignment with the apps in 2016, but did not take any money for it on moral grounds.

Mohali man on ED radar for Canada’s ‘biggest gold heist’ used money to ‘fund wife’s debut Punjab film’

Mayank Kumar -
Agency officials says Simran Preet Panesar, a former Air Canada manager, allegedly received Rs 8.5 crore through hawala channels. Movie production got derailed as ED launched probe.

ED files FEMA case against Myntra & its directors for ‘Rs 1,654 crore FDI violation’

Mayank Kumar -
Inquiry revealed Myntra Designs Pvt Ltd allegedly received Rs 1,654 cr funding through FDI in Wholesale Cash & Carry category but was doing business in Multi Brand Retail Trade category.

Why tribunal upheld ED’s attachment of Chanda Kochhar’s Mumbai flat in ICICI Bank loan fraud case

Mayank Kumar -
This was after ED contested the adjudicating authority’s order that quashed its attachment of a Mumbai flat owned by the Kochhars and cash of Rs 10.5 lakh.

Washed coal bid, gold bars in bank locker. Inside NALCO graft case that ended in ex-chief’s conviction

Mayank Kumar -
Former NALCO chairman & MD Abhay Srivastava, his former colleague BL Bajaj & their wives were convicted in money laundering case stemming from a 2011 bribery case.
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