‘Rats ate bribe money’: Supreme Court grants bail to govt officer in Rs 10,000 bribery caseA unique courtroom drama unfolded in India as the Supreme Court granted bail to a government officer, citing an unexpected reason: rats had...
05 May, 2026, 08.22 AM IST
ED says terror financing, crypto frauds new focus areas for agencyThe Enforcement Directorate is now targeting cryptocurrency frauds, terror financing, cybercrimes, and drug trafficking. Bank and real esta...
01 May, 2026, 12.39 PM IST
ED eyes Rs 151 crore BSNL land deal in Chennai for new office complexThe Directorate of Enforcement is set to acquire a significant land parcel from BSNL in Chennai. This move aims to establish a new office c...
22 Apr, 2026, 04.27 PM IST
Delhi High Court rejects Sanjay Bhandari's plea against 'fugitive offender' tagThe Delhi High Court has upheld a trial court's decision on arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari, who is officially a fugitive economic offender...
09 Apr, 2026, 03.48 PM IST
ED has attached proceeds of crime worth Rs 64,920 cr in bank fraud cases: FM Nirmala SitharamanIn the Lok Sabha, Nirmala Sitharaman said the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA), 2018 was enacted to deter economic offenders from eva...
30 Mar, 2026, 07.29 PM IST
UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari declared fugitive economic offenderA Delhi court has declared UK-based arms consultant Sanjay Bhandari a fugitive economic offender following a request from the Enforcement D...
05 Jul, 2025, 08.01 PM IST
HC rejects Mehul Choksi's pleas against ED application seeking to declare him fugitive economic offenderThe Bombay High Court has dismissed businessman Mehul Choksi's petitions challenging the Enforcement Directorate's application to declare h...
21 Sep, 2023, 04.30 PM IST
ED booked 19 people under Fugitive Economic Offenders ActThe Enforcement Directorate has booked 19 people under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act and out of that 10 persons have been declared as...
01 Aug, 2023, 07.26 PM IST
10 people declared fugitive economic offenders since 2018: GovernmentThe Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA) was enacted by the Narendra Modi government in 2018 to crackdown on those who are charged with h...
01 Aug, 2023, 06.46 PM IST
PNB scam: Court allows confiscation of Nirav Modi's assetsSpecial Judge V C Barde permitted the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to confiscate those assets owned by Nirav Modi that are not mortgaged or...
08 Jun, 2020, 08.52 PM IST
Nirav Modi's assets worth Rs 2,400cr may be soldModi is the second businessman after Vijay Mallya to be labelled as a fugitive economic offender under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act.
07 Dec, 2019, 11.10 AM IST
ED moves court to declare Zakir Naik a fugitive economic offenderThe ED filed the application before the PMLA seeking that Naik be declared as a fugitive economic offender under Fugitive Economic Offender...
23 Sep, 2019, 08.27 PM IST
Confiscating properties draconian, won't help creditors: Vijay Mallya to Bombay HCMallya's counsel Amit Desai on Monday told a division bench of Justices that the ED confiscating the properties will not help the creditors.
01 Apr, 2019, 05.06 PM IST
View: Imposing policy choices on a future government is anti-democraticWhile extolling the virtues of the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, Piyush Goyal forgot to mention the number of economic offenders smiling...
02 Feb, 2019, 12.06 AM IST
Action initiated against 7 people under fugitive economic offenders law: GovtThe Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 got President's assent in August this year.
18 Dec, 2018, 08.42 PM IST
Panel suggests Passport Act amendment to prevent borrowers from fleeing outCommittee has suggested amendments in Passport Act under which a persons with “a very high amount of financial risk” would be asked to stay...
07 Aug, 2018, 01.49 PM IST
President nod to law to deter fugitive economic offenders from fleeing countryThe new legislation will prevent big economic offenders like Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi from fleeing the country and evading the law.
05 Aug, 2018, 12.08 PM IST