#Enforcement Directorate

'Shield the guilty': Punjab and Haryana High Court hands CMO corruption case to CBI after police sat on ED letters

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on October 5 ordered the CBI to register an FIR and probe alleged cash-for-transfers corruption linked to the Chief Minister's OSD, after Punjab Police failed to act on three ED letters. Report in two months.

7 October 2026 · 2 min read

Piggy bank on coins, symbol of small savings

Opinion

The deposit trap: 36,000 small savers, one paper empire — the state failed them first

₹391 crore in "salaries" for four employees. ₹80 crore in onions that were never bought. Export profits from exports that never happened. The ₹1,417-crore Unique Exports fraud is not just a crime story — it is a portrait of a state that arrives after the money is gone, and of small savers it never protected.

2 October 2026 · 2 min read

India

ED arrests two in ₹1,417-crore 'export profits' fraud that trapped nearly 36,000 investors

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested S. Naveen Kumar and S. Muthuselvam in an alleged ₹1,417.86-crore fraud run through Unique Exports, which promised 35,759 investors high returns from agricultural exports it never substantially carried out. A special PMLA court has remanded both to 15 days' judicial custody.

2 October 2026 · 2 min read

Tamil Nadu

ED steps into ₹100 crore school-recognition fraud case against ex-minister Anbil Mahesh

The Enforcement Directorate has opened a money-laundering probe into the alleged ₹100 crore racket in which private schools were promised permanent recognition for cash. The case, first registered by the Chennai Central Crime Branch, names former school education minister Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi; he denies the charges and has moved the Madras High Court to quash the FIR.

2 October 2026 · 2 min read