NEW DELHI: Within weeks of the Madras high court validating the Enforcement Directorate’s money laundering probe against India’s biggest political donor Santiago Martin, better known as ‘lottery king’, the agency on Thursday carried out searches at 20 premises of the accused and his associates across Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Haryana and Punjab. Martin and his…
NEW DELHI: In a first, Enforcement Directorate went after a group of land grabbers in Chennai that had encroached upon a plot worth Rs 13 crore in Saidapet area, and restituted it to its owner, a significant development in the face of several such cases of usurpation taking several decades to be disposed of and…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday launched a series of searches across India targeting certain vendors operating on major e-commerce platforms Amazon and Flipkart, according to PTI sources.The raids, part of an ongoing probe under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), spanned multiple locations, including Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru.According to officials, the…
NEW DELHI: In yet another case of restitution of assets to victims of a scam, the Enforcement Directorate has allowed the sale and refund of 185 crore worth of attached property of Jammu-based Surya Pharmaceuticals to SBI in a money laundering case against the company and its directors.The attached assets include a building and superstructure…
In a significant crackdown on illegal ticket sales, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) launched coordinated raids on October 25, 2024, across five major Indian cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Chandigarh, and Bangalore. This operation is part of an ongoing investigation into unauthorized ticket sales for the highly anticipated concerts of British rock band Coldplay and Punjabi singer…
NEW DELHI: In December 2020, Enforcement Directorate arrested KA Rauf Sherif, the general secretary of the Campus Front of India (CFI). That was the beginning of a multi-agency probe against the Popular Front of India (PFI) to unearth its entire network and source of finance.A dossier prepared by ED after a four-year probe revealed PFI…
NEW DELHI: AAP leader and Delhi’s former minister Satyendra Jain walked out of Tihar Jail on Friday evening after he was granted bail in the money laundering case. Upon his exit from the jail, Jain was greeted by Delhi chief minister Atishi and other senior AAP leaders, including Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh. Sisodia embraced…
Abbas Ansari (File photo/IANS) The Supreme Court granted bail to MLA Abbas Ansari on Friday in a money laundering case. Ansari, the son of the late gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, received the relief from a bench comprising Justices M M Sundresh and Pankaj Mithal.SC had sought a response from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on an appeal…
File photo of Satyendar Jain Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court granted bail to former Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain on Friday in connection with the money laundering case against him. Jain, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in May 2022, has been facing charges of laundering money through shell…
MUMBAI: Way back in 1995, Baba Siddique was an ebullient, brash, smooth-talking young Congress corporator from Bandra West, attired in a chic pair of jeans and a T-shirt when this correspondent first encountered him in the corridors of the BMC headquarters. As Mumbai’s real estate market flourished towards the end of the last century, so…
