The Enforcement Directorate has summoned six coal traders following raids on I-PAC’s office and director Pratik Jain. The probe alleges that ₹20 crore from a ₹1,114 crore coal smuggling syndicate was routed through hawala channels to fund election activities.
ED attached Rs 7.93 crore assets from Urvashi Rautela, Sonu Sood, Yuvraj Singh, and others under PMLA for promoting illegal 1xBet betting via social media. This follows Rs 11.14 crore freeze on Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina. ED warns celebs against surrogate ads.
Mehul Choksi faced a major setback when Belgium’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal, allowing his extradition to India in connection with the Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank scam. Arrested in Antwerp in April, Choksi was denied bail as concerns remain over his flight risk. His nephew Nirav Modi is also fighting extradition from London.
Since 2014, the Enforcement Directorate has launched 6,444 money laundering investigations, achieving a 94.64% conviction rate in 56 cases judged on merits. ED’s investigations and search operations have steadily risen, peaking with 1,116 cases in 2021-22. Meanwhile, the Income Tax Department filed 13,877 cases, with mixed prosecution outcomes since 2014-15, government data shows.
The FIR was filed on 3rd October following a complaint from the Investigative Unit of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The ED has been investigating a money laundering case linked to the National Herald property from 2008 to 2024
The global watchdog FATF has new asset recovery rules, its biggest reform in 30 years. It praised India's Enforcement Directorate, citing its laws and successful case studies like the Agri Gold fraud as a global benchmark for others to follow.