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The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 is the law under which the Enforcement Directorate attaches property and files prosecution complaints.
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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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On 23 November 2017 the Supreme Court struck down Section 45(1) PMLA's twin bail conditions as manifestly arbitrary under Articles 14 and 21. Here is what the ruling held and why it still matters.
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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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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 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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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 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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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 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 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 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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The PMLA Adjudicating Authority has confirmed the Enforcement Directorate's attachment in the Karuvannur co-operative bank case, in which the ED alleges about Rs 100 crore was cheated from the bank.
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The Enforcement Directorate has put a seized Hawker 800A jet up for auction in the Falcon Invoice Discounting matter, in which it alleges investors were duped of Rs 792 crore.
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The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached 94 bank accounts holding about Rs 10.24 crore in the HPZ Token investment matter, taking cumulative attachment past Rs 662 crore.
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The Supreme Court dismissed the Enforcement Directorate's appeal, affirming that freezing a bank account under Section 17(1A) of the PMLA needs recorded reasons to believe, not mere suspicion.
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The Madras High Court quashed a Chennai FIR against former IL&FS directors, while the ED and SFIO prosecutions over the group's near Rs 1 lakh crore collapse remain pending; no accused has been convicted.
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The ED provisionally attached Rs 1,003 crore of assets in the Dnyanradha Multistate Co-operative Society matter; per the agency, Rs 2,318 crore of deposits was diverted, with 24 accused now facing trial.
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The ED has provisionally attached further Adarsh Credit Co-operative Society property, taking total attachment to about Rs 2,184 crore; 139 accused face trial before the Special Court, Jaipur.
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The Special PMLA Court, Hyderabad allowed the ED's petition to restitute attached Agri Gold properties worth Rs 3,339 crore to depositors; the money-laundering trial against the accused is pending.
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The ED says it has restituted Rs 127.69 crore to 1,73,350 Rose Valley depositors across 16 phases, against Rs 6,666 crore the group left unpaid; the accused are presumed innocent.
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The ED has searched eight premises and frozen assets in a Himachal Pradesh crypto Ponzi case it says duped lakhs of investors of about Rs 2,300 crore; the accused are presumed innocent.
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A PMLA Special Court has ordered restitution of 455 properties worth about Rs 15,582 crore in the PACL case to the Justice Lodha Committee, the ED said; the accused are presumed innocent.
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The Mumbai Police Economic Offences Wing has filed a chargesheet against ten accused over an alleged Rs 122 crore shortfall at New India Co-operative Bank; the accused are presumed innocent.
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The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth Rs 50.72 crore in the Morris Coin case, alleging a cryptocurrency ICO that promised daily dividends and never listed the token.
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The Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached about Rs 2,385 crore in cryptocurrency in the OctaFX case, alleging the unauthorised forex platform duped Indian investors of about Rs 1,875 crore.
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The CBI has chargesheeted 30 accused, including two Chinese nationals and Shigoo Technology, over the HPZ Token app that allegedly took over Rs 1,000 crore promising crypto-mining returns.
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The Enforcement Directorate has arrested and charged Amardeep Kumar of Capital Protection Force, alleging a Rs 4,215 crore deposit scheme branded Falcon Invoice Discounting.
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The ED has arrested the chairman and managing director of Kerala's Fashion Gold group and attached Rs 19.62 crore, in a money-laundering case built on deposit-cheating complaints now pending trial.
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