Money Laundering Case

The real issue may be that the RBI does not really subscribe to the mandate it has been given, and the govt, in a pre-election year, quietly supports such agnosticism, writes T N Ninan

The ED has registered a money laundering case against Congress MP Karti Chidambaram and others to probe alleged irregularities in the issuance of visas to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011

A special court on Friday rejected the bail plea of dismissed Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze in the money laundering case connected to former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh. Special PMLA judge RN Rokade dismissed Waze's bail application, saying "prima facie" he seemed to be directly involved in the case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), represented by advocates Sunil Gonsalves and Sriram Shirsat, had opposed Waze's bail application, stating that he had knowingly played a vital role in the offence of money laundering. The central agency submitted that the 50-year-old former assistant police inspector (API), dismissed from service last year in connection with a separate criminal case, admitted during interrogation that he had collected money from orchestra bar owners in Mumbai. Waze had filed his bail application through advocates Sajal Yadav and Harsh Gangurde after the court took cognizance of the supplementary chargesheet filed by ED in the case against Deshmukh, his

Jharkhand mining secretary Pooja Singhal earlier arrested and remanded to the custody of the ED in a suspected money laundering case was suspended by the Jharkhand government on Thursday

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will produce her before a local court here seeking her remand.

Actress Jacqueline Fernandez, who is under the radar of the ED in connection with her alleged links with conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, approached a court here seeking permission to travel abroad

The National Investigation Agency swooped on more than a dozen locations in Mumbai linked with Pakistan-based mafia don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar's associates, drug-peddlers and hawala operators on Monday

The investigation was also conducted by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and a showcause notice to the party has been issued

Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik, arrested by the ED in a money laundering case, was in a "serious" condition after he was admitted on Monday on complaining of fever and diarrhoea

In February this year, the ED filed a supplementary charge sheet against Pinky Irani, an alleged aide of Chandrashekhar who introduced him to Fernandez

Nawab Malik (62) had earlier told the court that was unwell due to kidney ailments and had swelling in his legs

They were accused of cheating home buyers on the pretext of a Gurugram based project and since then they are behind the bars

ED recently, attached properties belonging to Maharashtra Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik and his family under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002

He was grilled and his statement was recorded for the first time by the federal agency here for about 8 hours on April 12

Channi's nephew Bhupinder Singh alias Honey was arrested in this case by the agency days before the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to consider listing for hearing Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik's plea seeking immediate release from prison in a money laundering case.

The raids are being carried out under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday opposed Maharashtra's former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh's bail plea in the Bombay HC stating that he was the "mastermind" behind the money laundering case

The ED has summoned AMMK leader T T V Dhinakaran this week for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged bribing of Election Commission officials to get the AIADMK's 'two leaves' symbol

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday told the Special CBI Court that former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh was trying to evade CBI questioning in the money laundering case