Latest Enforcement Directorate News & Updates

Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday sent documents to Kalighat police station in a case of violation of Motor Vehicle Act, 1988. The police had asked for several documents from the Diamond Harbour MP. On Sunday, his representative went to the police station and submitted the documents.However, according to sources, the documents are incomplete. Not everything that was asked for was given. Therefore, the police may send another notice to Abhishe…

Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has yet to submit documents in a recent traffic violation case, police sources said on Saturday evening. Banerjee was accused of violating the Motor Vehicle Act, 1988. Based on that allegation, the Kalighat police sent a notice to the Diamond Harbour MP and requested certain documents.Although the documents were supposed to be submitted to the police station by Saturday, police sources said that they have not received …

New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday said that it has arrested Amit Bapna, former Chief Financial Officer of Reliance Capital Ltd, in connection with the ongoing investigation into the Reliance ADA Group cases.According to the CBI, the investigation has revealed that Amit Bapna — who served as Chief Financial Officer of Reliance Capital Ltd from August 2014 to December 2019 — was one of the key decision-makers responsible for managing the financial aff…

Kochi, July 4 (IANS) Top CPI-M leaders accused in the Karuvannur Cooperative Bank money laundering case appeared before the Special Court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) at Kaloor, Kochi, and secured bail on Saturday. Among those who appeared before the court and filed bail applications were former minister and MLA A.C. Moideen, MP K. Radhakrishnan, former CPI-M Thrissur district secretary M.M. Varghese, along with five other accused.The court had earlier issued summonses dir…

Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case of Disproportionate Assets (DA) against former and arrested Trinamool Congress Councilor, Debraj Chakraborty, is examining the angle of use of shell companies in diverting the proceeds of crime.The proceeds of crime were collected through illegal avenues by both Chakraborty and his wife Aditi Munsi, a former Trinamool Congress legislator and an acclaimed devotional singer in her personal life.Already, the SIT members ha…

Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) told on Friday that it had filed a charge sheet against VRM Business Services Private Limited, a Kolkata-based Information Technology (IT) firm and its directors, Rajesh Goenka and others accused of running an illegal call centre and siphoning crores of rupees from common people. The charge sheet had been filed under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, a statement issued by ED claimed.”Earlier, the ED had …

Patna, July 3 (IANS) A high-level review meeting on security, administrative, and developmental issues related to the India-Nepal border was held on Friday at Samvad Hall, located in the Chief Minister’s Secretariat, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Samrat Chaudhary. District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police from Bihar’s seven border districts participated in the meeting through video conferencing. During the meeting, Chief Secretary Pratyaya Amrit delivered a detailed presentat…

Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) told on Friday that the probe agency’s Kolkata Zonal Office has filed the second supplementary charge sheet against the former West Bengal Education Minister and Trinamool Congress’ Secretary General, Partha Chatterjee, his close aide Arpita Mukherjee, and others before a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata on June 25 in connection with the multi-crore cash-for-school job scam. “The complaint has been f…

Indore, July 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), Indore Sub Zonal Office, has filed a chargesheet before the Special Court (PMLA), Indore, against Shrikant Ghante, Subhash Chandra Dubey, Rakesh Jain, Antim Joshi, and Anand Shah. It was registered on Thursday under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, for their alleged involvement in causing wrongful loss amounting to Rs 4.64 crore to Nav Bharat Grah Nirman Cooperative Society, Indore.The Special Court has…

Hyderabad, July 3 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement’s (ED) Hyderabad Zonal Office has auctioned an aircraft (Hawker 800A) seized in a case relating to a Rs 792 crore invoice discounting scam allegedly perpetrated by Amardeep Kumar and his company, Capital Protection Force Pvt Ltd (Falcon Group), an agency statement said on Friday.The Central agency said on Friday that, in a first-of-a-kind action, it auctioned the aircraft through MSTC Limited on July 1 for a sale consideration of Rs 3 crore…