Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre Included in PMLA Information Sharing Agencies

On 25 April 2025, the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) issued a notification (G.S.R. 261(E)) amending its earlier list of agencies authorized to receive information under Section 66(1)(ii) of the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA). This amendment adds the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) as the 27th agency eligible to access information under the Act. The decision was made in the public interest and reflects the growing relevance of cybercrime-related data in financial crime investigations.

The original notification, G.S.R. 381(E) dated 27 June 2006, has undergone multiple amendments over the years to expand the list of institutions involved in preventing and investigating money laundering. The inclusion of I4C, a key agency under the Ministry of Home Affairs focused on cybercrime coordination, is expected to enhance inter-agency cooperation and improve information sharing related to digital financial crimes.

MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(Department of Revenue)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 25th April, 2025

G.S.R. 261(E).— In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 66 of the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002 (15 of 2003), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest to do so, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 381(E), dated the 27^th June, 2006, namely:-

In the said notification, after serial number (26) and the entry relating thereto, the following serial number and entry shall be inserted, namely:—

“(27) Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C).”.

[F. No. P.12011/2/2009-ES Cell-DOR]

SHANKAR LAL KUMAWAT, Director (Hqr.)

Note : The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 381(E), dated the 27^th June, 2006 and subsequently amended vide numbers G.S.R. 929(E), dated the 29^th December 2009, G.S.R. 763(E), dated the 15^th September, 2010, G.S.R. 957(E), dated the 7th December, 2010, G.S.R. 735(E), dated the 1^st October, 2012, G.S.R. 30(E), dated the 17^th January, 2014, G.S.R. 564(E), dated the 6^th August, 2014, G.S.R. 970(E), dated the 15^th December, 2015, G.S.R. 136(E), dated the 17^th February, 2017, G.S.R. 437(E), dated the 8^th May, 2018, G.S.R. 674(E), dated the 25th July, 2018 , G.S.R. 24(E), dated the 11th January, 2019, G.S.R. 152 (E) dated the 1st March, 2021 and G.S.R. 491(E), dated the 07th July, 2023.