NEW DELHI: Deploring Enforcement Directorate‘s high-handedness for interrogating ex-IAS officer Anil Tuteja for the whole night and showing his arrest at 4am in the Chhattisgarh liquor scam, Supreme Court Friday termed conduct of the investigators “terrible”.Though a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih said improper conduct of agency officials would not…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to stay trial court proceedings against former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam.The high court also issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate on a plea moved by Kejriwal challenging the trial court’s decision to take cognizance of…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday lodged an FIR in the alleged Maharashtra Bitcoin scam, news agency ANI reported quoting sources.The central agency booked Amit Bhardwaj, Ajay Bhardwaj and four others for allegedly collecting 80,000 Bitcoins and diverting the funds worth Rs 6,606 crore through nine overseas firms to purchase properties…
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…
