ED : Enforcement officers are showing their strength. In the name of searches, arrests and inspections, financial criminals are being ruthlessly targeted. Recently, the enforcement officers who created a sensation by arresting Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC Kavitha in the Delhi liquor scam, sent Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to jail and started a big uproar. In the history of independent India, the enforcement officials recorded the feat of putting a Chief Minister in jail.
Increased in ten years
The force of enforcement officers has increased since last ten years. The number of searches and arrests reached a peak. Compared to the Congress government, the Bharatiya Janata Party administration conducted 86 times more searches by enforcement officials across the country. Arrests also increased by 24 percent. If we look at the statistics from April 2024 to March 2024, the enforcement officials revealed that they have taken these measures to curb money laundering cases. Although the opposition is criticizing the enforcement officials, the Bharatiya Janata Party maintains that they are acting according to the law.
Enforcement officials registered 1,797 cases during the Congress administration, while the number rose to 5,155 during the Bharatiya Janata Party administration. That means almost three times increase in registration of cases.
An 86 times growth has been recorded in the case of searches. Between 2014 and 2014, enforcement officials conducted 7,264 searches across the country. It is remarkable that earlier the number of searches was only 84.
Although the Prevention of Money Laundering Act came into force in 2005, the punishment started from 2014. So far 63 people have been found guilty.
During the Narendra Modi administration, 755 people were arrested by the enforcement officials. Assets worth 1,21,618 crores were confiscated. 29 arrests were made during the UPA regime. The amount of confiscated assets is only 5,086.43 crores. That means arrests increased 26 times and asset seizures increased 24 times during BJP rule.
Enforcement authorities have issued 1971 orders in 10 years regarding confiscation of immovable and movable assets. During the UPA regime, the number was only 311. The number of charge sheets has increased 12 times in the last ten years.. Only 102 charge sheets were filed during the UPA regime. A total of 1,281 charge sheets were registered during the BJP regime.
Enforcement officials have obtained permission from the court to seize properties worth Rs 15,710.96 crore under Prevention of Money Laundering offences. 16,404.19 crores of the total confiscated properties were returned by the enforcement officials.
Enforcement officers are empowered to confiscate cash under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. 2,310 crore worth of Indian and foreign currency seized by enforcement officials in 10 years. Only 43 lakhs cash was confiscated during the administration of the Congress party.
Between 2014 and 24 between 2014 and 24, the enforcement officers issued red notices through the Interpol organization to catch the accused who left our country. Letters have been written to various countries seeking the extradition of 43 accused. But such measures were not taken during the Congress party administration.
Enforcement officials have succeeded in extraditing four accused accused of financial crimes to our country. The Enforcement Directorate was successful in obtaining similar orders against Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Sanjay Bhandari.
