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The Enforcement Directorate investigates money laundering under the PMLA and foreign-exchange violations under FEMA. Its attachments and prosecution complaints are allegations until a court rules.
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The ED has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 136.42 crore of Ocean Seven Buildtech, its promoter and a family member, alleging plot buyers' money in Rajasthan projects was diverted.
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The ED has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 129.85 crore of dairy firms and their promoters in a PMLA probe into the alleged supply of adulterated ghee to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams.
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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a prosecution complaint against FIITJEE and two of its directors in a Ghaziabad court, alleging that Rs 85.79 crore of student fees was misappropriated.
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On 27 July 2022 the Supreme Court in Vijay Madanlal Choudhary upheld the Section 45 PMLA twin bail conditions and the ED's arrest, attachment and Section 50 powers. Here is what it means.
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On 27 July 2022 the Supreme Court upheld the ED's core PMLA powers - Section 5 attachment, Section 8(4) possession, Section 17 search, Section 50 summons - in Vijay Madanlal Choudhary.
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The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached about Rs 1,906 crore of Gameskraft Technologies assets in the RummyCulture money-laundering case and filed a prosecution complaint in Bengaluru.
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SEBI has attached the bank and demat accounts of former DHFL director Dheeraj Wadhawan to recover an unpaid demand, as the ED separately freezes Rs 51.75 crore in a fresh DHFL probe.
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The scam that begins with a video call from someone claiming to be police is usually reported as an individual tragedy. Following one Goa complaint, the ED found the machinery behind it: dummy companies, borrowed directors, and bank accounts tied to 163 FIRs across 20 states.
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The Directorate of Enforcement has filed a second supplementary prosecution complaint in the HPZ Token case, bringing 87 new accused on record and taking the cumulative total to 437. The proceeds of crime are put at approximately Rs 2,200 crore, of which the ED says it has attached or frozen more than Rs 662 crore.
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The ED's second supplementary complaint names five payment gateway and fintech entities, and four key managerial persons, as having allegedly helped launder proceeds of crime through the misuse of payment gateway infrastructure and the floating of dummy entities.
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The ED's complaint describes Zhudao Infotech Private Limited, run by a General Manager and a Director both named in the complaint, as a payment aggregator operating without an RBI licence, which onboarded paper entities whose directors were paid small sums to lend their names.
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Analysis of the accounts of Shigoo Technology Private Limited and Lillian Technocab Private Limited established, in the ED's account, that proceeds of crime were transferred onward to six further entities the agency describes as shell or dubious.
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The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached land worth Rs 129.80 crore in an alleged Ahmedabad real estate fraud the agency says targeted homebuyers and small investors.
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The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached Rs 131.13 crore and filed a prosecution complaint against nine accused in the Kotak Mahindra Bank-Panchkula municipal funds case.
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The Madras High Court has dismissed the Enforcement Directorate plea to move a former minister disproportionate-assets trial to a special PMLA court, calling the request premature.
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The Enforcement Directorate froze Rs 64.67 crore held with WazirX in a 2022 money-laundering probe into loan apps, then released it weeks later. No adverse final finding is on record.
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The Enforcement Directorate searched 10 Ahmedabad locations under PMLA over the alleged diversion of rent from Gujarat Waqf properties by persons police say posed as trustees; no charge is proven.
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The CBI registered an FIR on 30 June 2025 alleging bribery for favourable NMC medical-college inspections; a Telangana High Court order records the case, and the ED has since opened a linked probe.
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The Delhi High Court quashed look-out circulars against the IFFCO and Indian Potash chiefs on 13 January 2026; the CBI probe into alleged fertiliser-subsidy inflation continues.
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The Enforcement Directorate and Tamil Nadu's EOW are investigating Pranav Jewellers over gold-savings schemes that allegedly mobilised about Rs 100 crore; no charge has been proven.
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The Chhattisgarh High Court on 22 March 2025 dismissed petitions by Ravi Uppal and Sourabh Chandrakar and upheld the ED's non-bailable warrants in the Mahadev betting app money-laundering case.
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Vanuatu's PM ordered Lalit Modi's passport revoked on 10 March 2025; the Ministry of External Affairs confirmed his bid to surrender his Indian passport as ED FEMA proceedings continue.
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Seven years after the CBI first filed, the Enforcement Directorate's 2019 plea to declare Jatin Mehta a fugitive economic offender is still pending in a Mumbai court; he is not convicted.
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US authorities arrested Nehal Modi on 4 July 2025 on a joint ED-CBI extradition request, which alleges he helped launder proceeds of the PNB case; no Indian trial has begun.
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The Enforcement Directorate searched premises of the Surana Group and Sai Surya Developers on 16 April 2025 in a PMLA case arising from a Hyderabad cheating complaint over plot ventures.
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The Enforcement Directorate arrested WTC Group promoter Ashish Bhalla on 7 March 2025 under the PMLA, alleging he collected over Rs 3,000 crore from plot and commercial-space investors.
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court denied bail to former MLA Dharam Singh Chhoker in the ED's Mahira Group PMLA case, over Rs 363 crore the agency says 1,500 homebuyers paid.
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed writs challenging the ED's PMLA arrest of two Ramprastha directors, in a case the agency says concerns Rs 1,100 crore of homebuyer money.
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The Calcutta High Court granted bail on 24 September 2025 to a man the ED arrested in its Fiewin gaming-app case, in which the agency alleges user deposits were routed to offshore crypto wallets.
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Cyberabad and Hyderabad police filed multiple FIRs and the Enforcement Directorate opened a PMLA inquiry into instant loan apps police allege used harassment and Chinese-controlled call centres.
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The RBI cancelled the licence of Panvel's Karnala Nagari Sahakari Bank in 2021, and the police EOW and ED are investigating alleged irregularities of about Rs 512 crore. No charge has been proven.
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SBI has classified Reliance Communications' loan account as fraud and the CBI has registered an FIR naming the company and Anil Ambani. No charge has been framed and the probe continues.
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The Delhi High Court refused bail to Naresh Jain in July 2021 in the Enforcement Directorate's money-laundering investigation, which the ED alleges rotated funds through hundreds of shell firms.
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A Chennai PMLA court acquitted Kanishk Gold and its promoters on 20 September 2023, rejecting the prosecution key evidence; the ED appeal against the acquittal is pending before the Madras High Court.
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The Telangana High Court on 1 July 2026 upheld the ED retention of assets in the MMTC gold bullion buyers credit case; the prosecution complaint alleging over Rs 500 crore loss is pending trial.
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The Supreme Court held on 15 May 2025 that Maharashtra MPID attachments outrank secured creditors in the NSEL commodity default; EOW and ED criminal cases remain pending.
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The PMLA Special Court, Ernakulam ordered Rs 65.07 crore of attached assets returned to Popular Finance depositors, while the ED's money-laundering case against the Kerala group's promoters remains at trial.
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The Kerala High Court quashed the Enforcement Directorate's money-laundering case (ECIR/36/KCZO/2022) against Manappuram Finance MD V.P. Nandakumar on 25 August 2023, after the predicate FIR was itself set aside.
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The CBI has chargesheeted 20 institutions and 105 individuals in the Himachal Pradesh post-matric scholarship case, where the ED alleges funds meant for SC, ST and OBC students were diverted.
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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a supplementary PMLA complaint before the Special Judge, Indore in the alleged Rs 20.47 crore Alirajpur Block Education Office treasury case.
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The Enforcement Directorate has filed a 20,000-page PMLA prosecution complaint before the Special Court, Indore against 32 accused in the Rs 103.42 crore Indore Municipal Corporation fake-bill case.
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The Delhi High Court refused bail on 10 June 2026 to a former Reliance Power CFO in the ED's PMLA case over allegedly forged bank guarantees in a SECI battery-storage tender; trial is pending.
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High Court orders record FIRs naming the Dani Data online gaming app and a deposit-then-vanish pattern; the ED is reported to have filed a PMLA prosecution complaint at Ahmedabad. Trial is pending.
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The Enforcement Directorate says it seized about Rs 68.42 crore and Kolkata Police filed a chargesheet before the Bankshall Court over the E-Nuggets mobile gaming app; trial is pending.
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The Enforcement Directorate has attached Rs 183.54 crore and alleges Rs 493.24 crore of proceeds of crime in the Al-Falah Trust case, citing accreditation and fee-diversion fraud. Trial is pending.
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Chhattisgarh's EOW and the ED allege a rigged Rs 660 crore CGMSC medical-procurement contract; the High Court and Supreme Court have granted bail to several accused, with trial pending.
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The Enforcement Directorate has attached about Rs 200 crore and pegged proceeds of crime at Rs 387 crore in the Manav Bharti University matter, alleging degrees were sold for cash. Trial is pending.
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The Chhattisgarh High Court granted retired IAS officer Anil Tuteja bail in the EOW's Rs 140 crore custom milling incentive case and criticised the prosecution's evidence. The trial has not begun and the allegations are unproven.
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The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached 94 accounts holding about Rs 10.24 crore in the HPZ Token investment scam, part of a case it alleges involved Rs 2,200 crore.
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A Special PMLA Court took cognisance on 10 December 2025 of an Enforcement Directorate complaint alleging the Sun Pariwar Group collected Rs 158 crore from over 10,000 investors in Telangana.
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The Kerala High Court granted bail to former MLA M.C. Kamarudheen and a co-accused in the Fashion Gold deposit case, observing that failure to repay deposits does not by itself amount to cheating.
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The Enforcement Directorate provisionally attached 10 properties worth Rs 15.41 crore in a PMLA case alleging a 135 shell-company fake-invoice racket; four accused are arrested and deny it.
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The Delhi High Court on 9 April 2026 upheld a trial court's declaration of Sanjay Bhandari as a fugitive economic offender, after a UK court refused his extradition on prison-conditions grounds.
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A court in Antwerp cleared Mehul Choksi's extradition to India on 17 October 2025 in the Rs 13,000 crore PNB case, and Belgium's Court of Cassation rejected his appeal; he remains untried in India.
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The England and Wales High Court refused to reopen Nirav Modi's extradition appeal on 26 March 2026 in the PNB letters-of-undertaking case; he remains in UK custody, untried in India.
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The Enforcement Directorate's PMLA prosecution complaint alleges IREO vice-chairman Lalit Goyal siphoned homebuyer funds and diverted about Rs 1,777 crore abroad; the case remains pending trial.
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The NCLT admitted Supertech to insolvency over a bank default while the ED alleges homebuyer funds were diverted, per the courts; the Supreme Court upheld promoter Ram Kishor Arora's arrest.
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The Supreme Court suspended Unitech's management and installed a board to finish stalled flats, while the ED alleges homebuyer money was siphoned, per its case before the Delhi High Court.
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The Supreme Court has vested Amrapali's projects in a court receiver and appointed NBCC to finish 42,000 flats, while it directs an ED money-laundering probe, per its orders in Writ Petition 940 of 2017.
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The Enforcement Directorate has filed prosecution complaints against 139 accused and attached assets in the Adarsh Credit Co-operative Society matter, per PMLA proceedings before the Special Court, Jaipur.
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