New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Central Bureau of Investigation director Praveen Sood said on Monday that corruption today is transnational, sophisticated, and increasingly enabled by technology, making international cooperation not a matter of choice but an absolute necessity. Delivering the keynote address at the 12th Steering Committee Meeting of the Global Operational Network of Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement Authorities, Sood highlighted the GlobE Network’s Secure Communication Platform as a…
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Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has attached assets worth Rs 302.89 crore in three separate money laundering cases, an official said.According to press statements issued by the ED, the highest attachment — amounting to Rs 200.02 crore — was made in connection with the Andaman & Nicobar State Co-operative Bank Limited (ANSCBL) fraud case involving alleged financial irregularities.“The attached properties include hotels, resorts and parcels of land…
Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) Kiran Khan and Chinmay Monday, the two influential coal traders who were arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on Tuesday in connection with the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal, were remanded to ED custody till February 18 by a special court of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata.Mondal is the maternal uncle of Khan. Both have been involved in coal trading for quite some time. However, the investigating officials of ED h…
Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested two prominent coal traders from West Bengal on Tuesday as part of its investigation into the multi-crore coal smuggling case.The two arrested coal traders have been identified as Kiran Khan and Chinmay Mondal.Mondal is known as an extremely close confidant of Anup Maji, alias Lala, one of the accused principal masterminds in the coal smuggling case.Both Khan and Mondal were being questioned since Monday by the ED officials, and fin…
Kolkata, Feb 9 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday issued a notice for interrogation to Monoranjan Hazra, the officer-incharge under Budbud Police Station, which comes under the Asansol-Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC), in connection with the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal.Earlier this month, the ED officials also conducted a raid and search operation at Hazra’s residence in connection with the coal smuggling case, and during those operations, the Investigat…
Kolkata, Jan 23 (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director Rahul Navin on Friday sought details of the bureaucrats and police officers of the West Bengal government who accompanied Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee when she visited two places where ED officials were conducting raid and search operations in connection with the alleged involvement of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) in a coal smuggling case earlier this month.Navin, who has been in Kolkata on a three-day visit since Th…
Kolkata, Jan 23 (IANS) A special meeting of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), chaired by its Director Rahul Navin, to review the progress of its ongoing investigation in the high-profile financial crime cases in West Bengal, started at the agency’s Kolkata office on Friday.Navin arrived in Kolkata on Thursday evening.Sources said that in the review meeting, the progress of the investigation into different high-profile financial crime cases in West Bengal is being discussed.The entire CGO complex…
Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director Rahul Navin will visit West Bengal again. According to ED sources, he will arrive in Kolkata on Thursday for a three-day visit. However, the reason for the ED Director’s visit has not been clarified by the agency. Many believe that this visit is highly significant in the backdrop of the recent ED raids at the house of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) director Pratik Jain and at the Kolkata office of I-PAC, a political consul…