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ED begins procuring Bengal cases for PMLA probes

ED begins procuring Bengal cases for PMLA probes
ED starts procuring details of cases in Bengal for possible PMLA probe · thehansindia.com

There is a special police agency called the ED that looks for money people get from breaking the law.

It wants to check some old crime cases from a place called West Bengal.

These cases include selling illegal weapons, moving people against their will, selling drugs, and online crimes.

Criminals often move big amounts of money in secret ways, sometimes through something called Hawala.

The state police are now sharing information about these cases with the ED.

Earlier, the state government did not share much information, so the ED could not investigate.

Now, the new state government wants the two agencies to work together.

The ED is also looking into other problems like a recruitment scam, coal smuggling, and cow smuggling.

The government hopes this teamwork will bring hidden black money back into the system.

Key facts

Investigating agency
Enforcement Directorate (ED)
Law concerned
Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA)
Focus areas
Arms smuggling, human trafficking, narcotics trafficking, cybercrime
State involved
West Bengal
Previous regime
Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress
Other ED probes mentioned
Recruitment scam, coal smuggling, cow smuggling
Illegal money route mentioned
Hawala

Quotes

State government official

Representative of West Bengal government

“Often, due to the reluctance of the previous administration, the ED officials also did not receive detailed information on such cases even after being sought. Now the new government has decided to share all such information sought by the ED in relation to such cases of organised crime so that the Central investigating agency can start probes under PMLA in such cases as and when necessary.”
thehansindia.com
“Many such cases have remained out of the ED’s radar since there was not much progress in state-level investigation in such matters. Now, while the state’s own investigating agencies, on their part, would carry forward their investigations in such cases, the details of these cases will also be shared with the ED so that the latter can initiate its own probe.”
thehansindia.com

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