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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has started an investigation against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Ibrahim Kaskar, and three others for extortion and illegal transfer of property. “ED begins investigation against Kaskar, Israr Z. Saiyyad, Mumtaz A. Shaikh and others for extortion and illegal transfer of property,” an ED official […]

New Delhi: The ED on Saturday summoned Narada News CEO Mathew Samuel on May 24 in a money laundering case it registered regarding a sting operation by his portal that showed senior TMC leaders in West Bengal allegedly receiving money in exchange for favours to a fictitious company. The Enforcement Directorate directed Samuel to visit its […]

New Delhi: A joint team of the ED and CBI is in London to seek extradition of liquor baron Vijay Mallya, sources said on Tuesday. The five-member team, comprising three officials from Central Bureau of Investigation and two of the Enforcement Directorate, left for London on Monday. The sources said the team would push for […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it has attached properties worth over Rs 60 crore here belonging to former Union minister Matang Sinh in connection with the multi-crore rupee Saradha Group chit fund scam. The agency said the properties (two residential buildings) attached are worth Rs 63 crore. Probing the case, the […]

Bhubaneswar: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached assets of Odisha-based Artha Tatwa group, its Managing Director P. K. Sethy and others in a chit fund scam. “ED attaches assets worth Rs 23 crore of Artha Tatwa Group, P.K.Sethy and others in chit fund scam in Odisha. Total attachment now is Rs 107 crore,” an […]

New Delhi: IRS officer Sanjay Kumar Mishra was on Saturday appointed the new chief of the Enforcement Directorate in an additional capacity, a government order said. Mr Mishra, a 1984-batch Indian Revenue Service officer of the Income Tax cadre, has been appointed as the Principal Special Director in the agency and has been entrusted with […]

Mumbai/New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday attached 21 properties, including a penthouse and a farmhouse, of Nirav Modi and his group worth over Rs 523 crore in fresh action against the beleaguered jeweller in the alleged Rs 11,400 crore fraud in the PNB. The central probe agency said it has issued a provisional […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has received replies from actor Amitabh Bachchan and his family members to notices issued to them in connection with its probe in the Panama Papers case and they could be summoned soon, officials said. Officials in the anti-money laundering agency said they had issued notices to the Bachchan family some […]

New Delhi: Senior bureaucrat S Aparna, presently Principal Secretary to Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, has been appointed as an Executive Director in the World Bank in the US. Aparna, a 1988-batch IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, has been appointed to the post for three years, an order issued by the Department of Personnel […]

Kolkata: The ED today attached assets worth Rs 293 crore in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam case in which thousands of people were allegedly cheated in West Bengal and Odisha, officials said. The central probe agency’s regional office here issued a provisional attachment order under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering […]

Bhubaneswar: Announcing its plan to continue with agitations till the ouster of Narendra Modi from the helm, the Trinamool Congress today said it foresaw Mamata Banerjee as a future prime minister. “This could happen one day. After all, we are a political party which is growing by the day. People may decide that (making Mamata […]

Bhubaneswar: Alleging political vendetta behind the arrest of TMC leaders, Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandopadhya’s wife Nayna today said her husband was in the “custody of Modi” and not in the “CBI’s custody.” Nayna, who has been camping here ever since her husband had been brought to the CBI custody for his alleged link to […]

Kolkata: With two of its MPs, Tapas Pal and Sudip Bandopadhyay, arrested by the CBI here in connection with the Rose Valley chit fund scam, shifted to Bhubaneswar, the Trinamool Congress has decided to hold a protest rally in the Odisha capital tomorrow. “We cannot be cowed down by threats and vendetta politics. The Centre […]

Kolkata: The ED today attached assets to the tune of Rs 1,250 crore, including eight hotels and a Rolls Royce luxury car, in connection with its money laundering probe in the Rose Valley chit fund scam case where thousands of people were allegedly cheated in West Bengal and Odisha. Officials said the agency issued a […]

Bhubaneswar: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against the authorities of the SUM hospital and the charitable trust running it after 25 people were killed in a massive fire last week here. The agency’s zonal office here has booked a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act to examine the […]