The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday continued its searches at places linked to Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara as part of the probe into alleged gold smuggling-linked money laundering case against Kannada actress Ranya Rao and others, official sources said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested the commercial head and production controller of India Ahead News in connection with a probe into the alleged Delhi excise scam, officials said Monday.
Sharpening its attack on West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday, a day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that his name figures in the Jain Hawala scandal, the Trinamool Congress said it will think of ways to step up the demand for his dismissal.
A trends study conducted by India's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has expressed suspicion that cryptocurrency is being used across the country in serious criminal acts like terrorist financing, fuelling secessionist activities, cybercrime, narcotics trafficking, illegal betting and gambling. The report, which was based on suspicious transaction reports and operational analysis, shared these trends and credible intelligence with law enforcement agencies.
The Delhi government's Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) has registered a case against former PWD minister and senior AAP leader Satyendar Jain over alleged corruption in a Rs 571-crore CCTV project. According to the ACB, Jain allegedly accepted a bribe of Rs 7 crore to waive the liquidated damages penalty of Rs 16 crore imposed on Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL). The project, which was executed when he was a PWD minister in the previous Arvind Kejriwal government, was related to the installation of 1.4 lakh CCTV cameras across all 70 assembly constituencies.
Special judge for Central Bureau of Investigation cases Kaveri Baweja took note of the charge sheet on Monday observing that there was sufficient evidence to proceed against her in the case.
A man wanted by the Enforcement Directorate in a 'cash-for-votes' case-linked money laundering investigation in Maharashtra has been apprehended at the Ahmedabad international airport, official sources said on Wednesday.
Botched Time Square bombing plot accused Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-origin American, used the hawala system to arrange money in plotting the attack, a CBS News report claimed.
The National Investigation Agency is probing a hawala transaction from Dubai which they believe was used to carry out Hyderabad's twin blasts last week. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
Devendra Mukhia, an alleged aide of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, on Monday surrendered before the Income Tax Department in Ranchi, which wants to probe his involvement in the alleged hawala and illegal investments case. Mukhia is among the four persons who had failed to meet the November 6 deadline, set by the IT department, to appear before it for questioning in connection with Rs 2000 crore hawala transactions and illegal investments case.
A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party released a CD targetting Robert Vadra and the land deals, the Congress joined the CD war, releasing one showing BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in pictures with one Afroz Fatta, who was arrested in connection to a Rs 1,000 crore hawala racket and dared him to submit himself to an independent probe.
The ED said that Jain's hawala (money laundering) transactions are to the tune of Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion).
The agency conducted a day long search at various offices of the businessman across the national capital, including Karol Bagh and Chandini Chowk areas recently and seized a large number of documents showing foreign bank accounts, unaccounted investments and receipts and payments showing hawala transactions worth several hundred crore rupees, officials said on Thursday. The accused is one of the leading importers of the Chinese mobiles.
Investigators probing the failed Times Square bombing suspect that a hawala racket was used to fund the terror plot. Hawala is the most common source of funds for terror operations and the global underground racket amounts to a whopping Rs 8000 crore. Sources in the Financial Intelligence Unit say that Indian hawala operations account for a massive Rs 2000 crore.Most hawala transactions that fund terror operations originate in Pakistan.
A woman Jet Airways employee was allegedly trying to smuggle out foreign currency worth over Rs 3 crore.
Seventeen persons, including four hailing from Taiwan, were arrested by Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Branch for allegedly operating a nationwide 'digital arrest' racket, a Gujarat police official said on Monday.
Statements of five 'Angadiya' firm operators have also been recorded by the ED to establish the "money trail" of this alleged Rs 45 crore bribe amount.
Jet Airways (India) termed the allegation made by Nancy Heckerman of US-based aviation outfit that money raised by Jet through public offer was pumped into the market through the 'hawala' route as "baseless".
After charge-sheeting Ramalinga Raju and others in the multi-crore rupee accounting fraud at Satyam, the Central Bureau of Investigation is trying to ascertain the role of 'hawala' operators who allegedly brought in crores of rupees from abroad.
A suspected hawala operator, who allegedly handed over Rs 10 lakh to fugitive Indian Mujahiddin operative Yasin Bhatkal for executing the July 13 triple blasts that killed 27 people in Mumbai, has been arrested from Delhi, the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad said on Tuesday.
'Media reports have highlighted that hawala money is coming from Arab countries. And this money is used to create disturbances in Jammu and Kashmir.'
Nine out of ten terror cases that are reported have had a hawala transaction, reports Vicky Nanjappa
Hussain, the agency said, has been 'arrested in connection with ongoing PMLA investigation into his role in money laundering and funding of anti-CAA protests and organising riots in north-east Delhi during February, 2020'.
A female agent working for the Pakistani intelligence from Mangalore oversees hawala transactions that help pump money to terror outfits. Vicky Nanjappa reports
The stringent curbs on gold imports has resulted in a huge flow of smuggled gold, being financed by buying dollars from the hawala market.
The Enforcement Directorate has seized the largest ever cash haul of Rs 9.28 crore from a Hawala dealer operating from Connaught Place in New Delhi after a night-long operation.
Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has been asked by probe agencies not to leave Delhi to face investigations in connection to the recently unearthed Hawala money trail in Kashmir.The Hurriyat faction led by Geelani, who is a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, attempted to downplay the investigations in the Hawala case. The outfit also called a bandh in the Valley on Tuesday for the 'harassment' of their leader in Delhi.
The federal agency issued a statement, saying it has attached fresh assets worth more than Rs 35 crore that are "beneficially-owned and controlled" by the PFI "in the name of various trusts, companies and individuals" as part of its ongoing probe against the outfit and entities linked to it.
The department raided more than 35 premises in Maharashtra's capital city on February 25, and the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said in a statement on Thursday that 'preliminary investigation indicates that these contractors have evaded income to the extent of Rs 200 crore on account of...malpractices'.
Around Diwali, the premiums had gone up to as much as 3.5 per cent.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was 'party to the criminal conspiracy' of the formulation and implementation of the Delhi Excise Policy since the beginning, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alleged in its latest supplementary charge sheet in the case.
Former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda, who is under the Income Tax scanner for alleged hawala transactions, was on Tuesday admitted to a hospital in Ranchi after he complained of illness.
A former senior Central Bureau of Investigation official was on Monday sentenced to one-year imprisonment by a Delhi court for demanding and accepting bribe for not invoking TADA against the Jain brothers in the controversial 1991 Jain hawala case.
Investigators suspect that the LeT module that executed the blasts received large funding from their patrons abroad and the money was routed through hawala operators in Mumbai and around.
A senior police officer said in Srinagar that a local trader had been arrested by the special operations group of the state police from the uptown Hyderpora locality of Srinagar a few days back.
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Monday arrested a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative in Budgam district of central Kashmir, a police spokesman said.
Basheer surrendered on Tuesday night before the Q branch, which is dealing with the cases related to LTTE in the state.
Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, facing probe in a hawala case, was on Tuesday stopped by the Delhi police from going to Srinagar after he tried to leave the city despite a notice by police against him.
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