Question : Attachment of Property by Enforcement Directorate

(a) Whether the Enforcement Directorate has attached the properties in a number of cases relating to economic offences;
(b) if so, the details of property during the last three years, case-wise; and
(c) the steps taken by the Government to strictly enforce the aforesaid mechanism for recovering the bank loans and pending taxes and curb public revenue loss ?

Answer given by the minister

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE
(SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR GANGWAR)

(a) to (c) Enforcement Directorate is mandated with the task of enforcing provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA). The role of Directorate comes into play as and when any occurrence of scheduled offence under PMLA comes to its notice. The Directorate has provisionally attached properties in a number of cases including the cases relating to bank frauds, public revenue loss, etc. under PMLA during the last three years as under:-
Items 2014 2015 2016 Total
No. of cases 127 106 104 337
Value of assets attached (Rs. in crore) 2797.83 3639.69 9298.02 15735.54

Money Laundering investigation cases also include cases relating to bank frauds, loss of public revenue etc. after cases are registered under the scheduled offences by the Law Enforcement Agency concerned.

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