The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached proceeds of crime in the form of immovable properties and bank balances amounting to Rs 29.75 crore in the case of Rs 6,498.20 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud by fugitive Nirav Modi, the agency said on Wednesday.
The Delhi High Court on Friday granted regular bail to Gurupada Maji after two years of custody in the West Bengal mining money laundering case under PMLA. The proceeds of crime, as alleged by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), of more than Rs 2742.32 crore.
The court's ruling establishes that businesses can be prosecuted under the Proceeds of Crime Act if they import goods knowingly linked to criminal circumstances, such as forced Uyghur labour.
Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Chandigarh, has provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 3.05 Crore as Proceeds of Crime belonging to Raghav Wadhawan, Lower Division Clerk of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN), Yamunanagar (Haryana) and others under the Prevent
In the second most prominent alleged corruption case in West Bengal, involving the PDS Ration Scam, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kolkata has attached 48 immovable properties worth over Rs 150 crores belonging to the then state Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick and other accused.
The ED has said that investigation is ongoing. This case is related to alleged irregularities in tendering process for procurement of electromagnetic flow metres of Delhi Jal Board. ED lodged a case of money laundering on the basis of case of CBI.
Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Ranchi has filed a Prosecution Complaint against Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader and former Chief Minister Hemant Soren under PMLA, 2002 for acquiring, possessing, and concealing proceeds of crime in the form of an 8.8-acre immovable property at Bariyatu,
"The DOE has at the time of arrest has failed to establish that Petitioner is guilty of committing activities stipulated under Section 3, i.e., be it one of concealment, possession, acquisition, use of proceeds of crime as much as projecting it as untainted property or claiming it to be so,"
According to ED, the property attached belongs to the Vardhman Educational Society which runs the Institute of Management Studies, Roorkee and IMS Institute of Technology, Roorkee against the proceeds of crime of Rs 1 crore (approx) in the case of SC/ST Scholarship Scam.
According to a press release, the complaint was lodged before the Hon'ble Special PMLA Court in Mumbai on March 2 and the court acknowledged it on March 4.
As per the ED, the Rs 123 crore amount frozen by the agency is suspected to be proceeds of crime, belonging to shell entities of Singapore and parked in the bank accounts of NIUM Indian Pvt Ltd on their behalf.
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has provisionally attached immovable properties worth Rs. 3.99 Crore as direct Proceeds of Crime belonging to Nitesh Agarwal and Vinod Kumar Goyal under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, said the agency in a press release.