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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) achieved 94.82% condemnation complaint successful money-laundering cases involving 123 accused persons arsenic connected December 31, 2025, according to the Union government’s reply successful the Rajya Sabha connected Tuesday.
Of the 58 cases nether the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the 123 accused had been convicted by peculiar courts successful 55 cases, the Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said successful a written effect to the queries of Member Ramji Lal Suman. The ED has secured condemnation successful 43 PMLA cases since 2020-21, wherein 104 accused person been convicted.
The ED recorded 5,158 cases for initiating probe nether the PMLA since 2020-21 till December 2025, erstwhile the full fig of money-laundering cases registered since inception stood astatine 8,391. The bureau filed prosecution complaints successful 1,960 cases. Since August 2019, erstwhile the proviso for filing a closure study was introduced, the ED has filed closure reports successful 93 cases. The reasons included closure of scheduled offence cases, quashing of predicate offence case, and the predicate offence tribunal uncovering that the predicate offence had nary nexus with immoderate proviso nether the PMLA.
“Prior to the aforesaid amendment (i.e., earlier August 1, 2019), cases wherever nary money-laundering offence was made retired were closed with the anterior support of determination Special Director of Enforcement. As such, since the inception of the PMLA, i.e., July 1, 2005, up to July 31, 2019; 1,185 cases were closed,” the reply stated.
It said the ED follows a multi-pronged attack for registering a lawsuit based connected money-laundering risks and threats, and by examining accusation received done respective sources. After completion of investigation, a prosecution ailment is filed earlier the peculiar court.
“Efforts person been made to fast-track investigations and reason cases efficiently done the enhanced usage of exertion which includes optimum usage of nationalist and planetary databases, forensic tools, artificial intelligence, OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques and integer resources to fortify grounds collection, amended analytical capabilities, and expedite analyzable fiscal transgression investigations,” the reply said.
