Person not charged of a predicate offence also come within the sweep of PML Act

Dyani Antony Paul Vs Union Of India (Karnataka High Court)

The main object of PML Act is to ascertain the proceeds of crime which involved in money laundering and attachment, confirmation and confiscation of the proceeds of crime in the form of properties and also to punish the offenders of money laundering. The date of acquisition of properties is immaterial but the date of projecting the proceeds of crime as untainted properties would only have to be ascertained by conducting investigation.

What is targeted by Section 3 is ‘laundering of money’ and therefore, the date

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