Enforcement Directorate

ED said that saying that the SDPI is one of the front organisations formed by the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) to pursue ‘all principles of jihad.’

ED that that the investigation was initiated by the agency based on an FIR registered by DCB Police Station, Ahmedabad, Gujarat against Langa and others for cheating and criminal breach of trust.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has imposed a penalty exceeding ₹3.44 crore on BBC World Service India for violations of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulations under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).

Under the PMLA implemented in 2005, the investigating agency ED has so far attached assets worth ₹ 1.45 lakh crore. In 2024 alone, the agency has attached assets worth more than ₹ 21 thousand crore.

Saurabh Sharma is currently on the run and his application for anticipatory bail has been rejected.

On the 10th and 19th December, the Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at eight locations in Mumbai, Nagpur, Gandhinagar, and Vadodara for agents involved in facilitating illegal migration through Canadian colleges.

During the latest raids across 22 locations pan-India, the ED recovered Rs 12.41 in cash along with 17 mobile phones, hard drives, pen drives, and email backups. The SC however directed the ED saying that it had no authority to access the content from the digital devices seized during searches.

The investigation revealed that UNLF cadres collected huge funds from the public and business people in Manipur by threatening them, as well as by illegally extorting toll taxes on several national highways.

Among the sellers interrogated by ED, one seller's testimony reportedly indicated glaring disparities between his annual turnover of several thousand crores and his minimal annual profit of Rs 20 lakh, implying that Amazon and Flipkart may similarly influence profit margins.

The money laundering case stems from a Malegaon Police FIR filed last week against a local trader named Siraj Ahmed Harun Meman, who runs a tea and cold drinks agency apart from some of his associates.