New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Former chairman Lalit Modi was cleared in the principal proceedings arising from the 2009 Indian Premier League’s staging in South Africa after the Appellate Tribunal under SAFEMA set aside the penalties imposed on him, rejecting the Enforcement Directorate’s core case that the foreign remittances were capital account transactions.Announcing the verdict after more than 16 years of investigations, proceedings, and litigation, Modi said the tribunal found that the main re…
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New Delhi, July 16 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a compounding order in the case of Apothecon Pharmaceuticals Private Limited’s violations of the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), which resulted in the closure of the ED investigation against the company with a one-time payment of Rs 40.52 lakh, according to a statement issued by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday.The RBI’s order compounding the violations under Section 15 of FEMA has b…
New Delhi, July 11 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said it has attached fresh properties worth Rs 1,021 crore in the Reliance Home Finance Limited (RHFL) and Reliance Commercial Finance Limited (RCFL) case, taking total attachments in the Reliance Anil Ambani Group cases to Rs 20,367 crore under the provisions of PMLA. The investigation was initiated against RHFL and RCFL based on multiple FIRs registered by the CBI “pursuant to complaints filed by several public and privat…
Mumbai, July 10 (IANS) In an operation linked to a reported associate of actor Shekhar Suman, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at the premises of Kalanee Impex run by Dharmesh Sangani over undisclosed foreign assets and suspicious cross-border transactions, an official said on Friday. Sangani, believed to have stakes in film production and closely associated with Shekhar Suman, came under the ED lens for allegedly operating foreign bank accounts in Canada, the US and the UAE, …
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a compounding order under Section 15 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), in the case of Touras India Private Limited, which has resulted in the termination of proceedings against the company for contraventions of the law’s provisions with a one-time payment of Rs 26,950, according to a statement issued by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on MondayThe order has been passed by the RBI after issuance of a “no objecti…
Mumbai, June 9 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued compounding orders under Section 15 of Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA), in the separate cases of Joinmay Electronic Private Limited and Universal Biofuels Private Limited, which has resulted in the termination of investigation against the two companies for contraventions of provisions of the act, according to a press statement issued by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED).The order in each case has been passed by the R…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) IPO-bound quick commerce platform Zepto has disclosed in its updated draft red herring prospectus (UDRHP) that its founders — Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra — received summons from the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in April under proceedings linked to the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999.According to the updated filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the ED sought information and documents related to the company and its p…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a compounding order under Section 15 of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA), in the case of Jusda India Supply Chain Management Private Limited with a one-time payment of Rs 12,52,984. This has resulted in the termination of proceedings against the company for compounded contraventions of provisions of FEMA, 1999, according to a statement issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday.The order has been pas…
New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches at two premises linked to the Vedanta Group in Delhi and Mumbai as part of an investigation under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), senior agency officials said on Tuesday.According to officials, the searches, which have concluded, are related to alleged “brand fee payments made by group entities to their parent company”.The probe agency collected documents and records linked to the alleged transaction…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) again conducted raids at the residence of Punjab Cabinet Minister Sanjeev Arora in Sector 2, Chandigarh on Saturday morning, with around 20 vehicles and heavy security personnel deployed during the operation.According to ED sources, the agency is carrying out search operations at four premises linked to Sanjeev Arora and his associates under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The searches are being conducted across Chandigarh an…