The Enforcement Directorate (ED) registered 5,297 cash laundering instances throughout the nation prior to now 10 years however accomplished trials in solely 43 instances, based on a report submitted to Parliament by the central company.
Of the 43 instances that accomplished trials below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA), the defendants had been convicted in 40 instances and acquitted in three instances, giving a conviction price of 93%.
Throughout the identical interval, the Enforcement Directorate filed 8,719 instances below the anti-terror regulation, the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
Of those instances, 789 instances have been concluded, with 222 folks convicted and 567 acquitted. The conviction price in UAPA instances is 28.13%.
The very best variety of PMLA instances had been registered in 2021 and 2022, with 1,166 and 1,074 instances respectively. Information reveals that beginning in 2014, 195 instances had been registered, 148 in 2015 and 170 in 2016.
In 2020, throughout the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the variety of instances surged to 708, a major enhance from 188 instances in 2019.
Over the previous decade, greater than half of the instances had been registered between 2021 and 2023.
Delhi recorded its highest variety of PMLA arrests since 2016, with a complete of 90 arrests, together with 36 in 2024 alone. Key amongst them is Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
43 folks had been arrested in Maharashtra, 42 in West Bengal and 24 in Rajasthan.
Some states and union territories together with Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland States, Sikkim, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Ladakh, Lakshadweep Islands and Puducherry None Arrest any particular person below the PLA Act.
