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Corporate Law : Read the latest Ministry of Finance notification granting Aadhaar authentication permission to reporting entities under the Money-...
Central Government hereby notifies the dealers in precious metals, precious stones as persons carrying on designated businesses or professions — if they engage in any cash transactions with a customer equal to or above Rupees ten lakhs, carried out in a single operation or in several operations that appear to be linked.
These rules may be called the Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Fourth Amendment Rules, 2020. (2). They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
Okram Ibobi Singh Vs Directorate of Enforcement (Manipur High Court) Petitioner is the Ex-Chief Minister of the State and it is not as if he will run away from the prosecution, if any, initiated against him. The learned counsel for the petitioner, during the course of the arguments, explicitly stated that the petitioner would extend […]
Where assessee was the Managing Director of ITNL when all the 10 alleged bogus contracts were awarded therefore, assessee’s knowledge and involvement in the alleged awarding of contracts could not be ruled out. Indeed, the Investigating Officer had interrogated the assessee twice, however looking at the gravity of the offence and the aspect of pending investigation relating to finding out the real beneficiaries of the siphoned off money, this Court found itself in disagreement with the submission that no more interrogation in custody was required. Accordingly, the assessee’s bail application was dismissed on account of involvement of huge money laundering .
Katta Subramaniam Naidu Vs Deputy Director (Karnataka High Court) In this batch of petitions, petitioners have questioned the correctness and legality of the proceedings initiated against them under sections 3, 4 and 8(5) of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (for short ‘PML Act’). 2. The common grievance of the petitioners is that they […]
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 […]
Money laundering is a serious economic offence and serious threat to the national economy and national interest and, these offences are committed with cool calculation with the motive of personal gain regardless of the consequences on the society.
Vikas WSP Ltd. & Ors. Vs Directorate Enforcement & Anr. (Delhi High Court) Sub-section (1) of Section 5 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (ACT) empowers the Director or any other officer not below the rank of the Deputy Director authorized by the Director of Enforcement in this regard, to pass an order […]
In the past when you had to open a Simple Bank account in any branch of PSU / Private Sector Bank in India, apart from filling all the particulars in the Account opening form, you had to fill a space wherein somebody known to you personally had to introduce you to bank and to sign […]
Ramchan Krunakaran Vs Directorate of Enforcement (Bombay High Court) In Nikesh Tarachand Shah Vs. Union of India, 2018(11) SCC 1, the Apex Court has reiterated the principle concerning grant of bail being the rule and refusal being exception and while dealing with Section 45 of the PMLA Act which imposes twin stringent condition for offences […]
