Businessman Raj Kundra penned a note on Instagram requesting media personnel not to drag his wife and actor Shilpa Shetty's name amid the alleged Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids at his house.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Bhubaneswar conducted searches on November 22, at nine locations in Odisha, Delhi, and Gurugram linked to M/s Z Estates Private Limited (ZEPL) as part of an investigation into alleged violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
The move comes after Supriya Sule, Member of Parliament from the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar faction), filed a cybercrime complaint with the Election Commission of India following allegations of using bitcoin to fund the ongoing Maharashtra Assembly elections.
The agency is probing lottery scam case registered in 2012 against lottery baron Santiago Martin and others, in which the Sikkim government was allegedly cheated.
The raids have been underway since Thursday morning in at the premises of suspects in West Bengal's Kolkata, Sikkim, and Tamil Nadu's Chennai and Coimbatore.
The Chennai Zonal Office of Enforcement Directorate conducted search operations against the OPG Group for violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), 1999, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulations.
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday raided 17 locations in Jharkhand and West Bengal in connection with illegal Bangladesh infiltration and recovered fake Aadhaar cards, forged passports, and illegal arms.
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Manoj Pandey on Tuesday criticised the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) recent raids in Jharkhand and West Bengal, which are part of an investigation into money laundering linked to suspected Bangladeshi infiltration
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted searches under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) at 19 premises of main vendors of e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart across multiple cities, including Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Panchkula (Haryana).
The Directorate of Enforcement is conducting raids on multiple premises linked to a chartered accountant, B C Jain in connection to money laundering case in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.