Enforcement Directorate

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized fixed deposits (FDs) worth Rs 133 crore and cash to the tune of Rs 70 lakh of former Odisha MLA Dr Jitendra Nath Patnaik in connection with a money-laundering probe involving illegal mining. The official said that cash and 124 fixed deposits were seized after the agency […]

  RANCHI: Jharkhand Mining and Geology department secretary Pooja Singhal and her husband Abhishek Jha on Tuesday joined the Enforcement Directorate’s probe in connection with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scam to the tune of Rs 18 crore. Singhal came on ED’s radar last week after the agency sleuths carried out […]

  RANCHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday seized cash to the tune of Rs 19.31 crore during its searches at over 18 locations, including those related to Jharkhand’s mining department secretary Pooja Singhal, with a case related to corruption and misappropriation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) funds. The cash was […]

  NEW DELHI: Rs 5,551 crore of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Technology India has been seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the agency said on Saturday. The action has been taken under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999. A source in the ED said that Xiaomi India is a wholly-owned subsidiary […]

  NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached properties of Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez worth Rs 7.27 crore in connection with a money-laundering probe involving conman Sukesh Chandrasekhar. An ED source said that the agency has attached the properties of Fernandez which she received in the form of gifts from Chandrasekhar. The action has […]

  NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is carrying out searches at over 26 locations across the country in connection with the Rs 22,842 crore ABG Shipyard case, sources said on Tuesday. An ED source related to the probe told The New Indian, that the financial probe agency is conducting searches in Mumbai, Pune and Surat […]

  NEW DELHI: India’s financial probe agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday initiated an investigation into the money laundering angle in the  Jahangirpuri communal violence case. “The ED has registered a case of money laundering to probe the angle of funding through various channels to the accused named in the FIR (in the Jahangirpuri […]

  NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 757.77 crore of Amway India Enterprises Pvt Ltd in connection with its money laundering probe into an alleged multi-level marketing scam, officials said on Monday. The properties attached include land and factory building in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district, its plant and machinery, vehicles, […]

New Delhi: Making progress in its probe against the Chinese phonemaker Xiaomi, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned its former Indian head Manu Kumar Jain for questioning in connection with an FEMA case. According to ED sources, Jain has been asked to appear before the financial probe agency sleuths at its Delhi headquarters in connection […]

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: In one of well coordinated operations, the Central Bureau Bureau Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday brought Subhash Shankar Parab, a close aide of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi to Mumbai. He was intercepted in Egyptian capitak Cairo and was brought to Mumbai. CBI is probing Rs 7,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case […]