Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday launched a money laundering probe into transactions linked to three bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress on which “debit restrictions” were recently imposed following directions from the West Bengal Police, which is conducting a parallel investigation in the case.Multiple ED teams, accompanied by heavily armed Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel, carried out simultaneous raids and search operations at several location…
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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 …
Kolkata, July 2 (IANS) Former Trinamool Congress councillor from Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation in North 24 Parganas district, Debraj Chakraborty, arrested by the West Bengal Police in connection with a disproportionate assets case, has now come under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).He was arrested on Wednesday evening. Sources aware of the development said the Central investigating agency officials have sought details of the main charges against Chakraborty in this particular…
Guwahati, June 27 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached immovable properties worth around Rs 53.28 crore in connection with a money laundering case against retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Prasanta Kumar Dutta, his family members and group companies, officials said on Saturday. According to the ED, the Guwahati Zonal Office issued a Provisional Attachment Order under Section 5(1) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, covering multiple hot…
Chennai, June 26 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has widened its investigation into the alleged manipulation of the 2017 Teachers Recruitment Board (TRB) examination for Polytechnic lecturers, carrying out searches at 21 premises across Chennai, Madurai, Tiruchy and Coimbatore, officials said. The searches, conducted on Thursday under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), are linked to the alleged tampering of Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) answer sheets in one of Tamil Nadu’s b…
Bhopal/New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bhopal Zonal Office, has provisionally attached two foreign investment-linked life insurance policies worth approximately Rs 3.66 crore in connection with the money laundering investigation against M/s Advantage Overseas Private Limited (AOPL) and its promoter, Shrikant Bhasi. The attached policies are maintained with Zurich International Life Ltd and have an aggregate surrender value of USD 387,814.42 (around Rs 3.66 crore). …
Indore, June 25 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Indore Sub-Zonal Office, has provisionally attached 56 residential plots in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.The attachment is part of an ongoing probe into the embezzlement of government funds amounting to Rs 20.47 crore from the Block Education Office (BEO), Katthiwada, in Alirajpur district, the ED said in a statement.The ED initiated the investigation based on an FIR registered…
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has initiated a money laundering investigation into an alleged health procurement scam involving an estimated Rs 600–650 crore and has sought extensive records from the Delhi Government’s Health Department as part of its ongoing probe, sources said on Thursday.The investigation has been launched under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and is focused on allegations of irregularities in the procurement of …
New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday deferred the hearing on an interim bail plea filed by Al-Falah Trust money laundering case accused Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) placed its status report on record. The matter came up before Justice Vinod Kumar, who posted the case for further hearing on July 8.Siddiqui has sought six weeks’ interim bail on the ground that his wife, Usma Akhtar, is undergoing treatment for cancer and requires his care and s…
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) The Cyber Police Station of Delhi Police’s Central District has successfully dismantled a fraud and money laundering syndicate involving cheating of Rs 2 lakh, modelled on a work-from-home-based scam and arrested four accused from Rajasthan, officials said on Friday.Investigators have revealed that the syndicate used multiple bank accounts, particularly of students and young persons on the pretext of work-from-home opportunities, to layer and launder cybercrime proceeds…