Lok Sabha Question No. 75 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-01
Subject: ED Cases
Ministry: FINANCE
Asked by: Shri Shatrughan Prasad Sinha

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

## LOK SABHA UN-STARRED QUESTION NO. 75

TO BE ANSWERED ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 01, 2025/ AGRAHAYANA 10, 1947 (SAKA)

## ED CASES

## 75. SHRI SHATRUGHAN PRASAD SINHA:

Will the Minister of Finance be pleased to state :-

(a) the number and details of ED cases registered and convictions made between 1 June 2014 and 1 November 2025, under PMLA 2002, year-wise; and

(b) whether it is a fact that a closure report has been filed in 49 cases and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI PANKAJ CHAUDHARY)

- (a) The year-wise details of cases recorded, Prosecution Complaints (PCs) filed, Supplementary  PCs  filed  by  Enforcement  Directorate  (ED)  and  number  of  accused convicted under the provisions of Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) during the period from 01.06.2014 to 31.10.2025 is as per Annexure.
- (b) After  the  amendment  of  PMLA  by  the  Finance  (No.  2)  Act,  2019  (No.  23  of  2019) through insertion of proviso to Section 44(1)(b) w. e. f. 01.08.2019, Closure Report is required to be filed by ED before the Special Court, PMLA, in cases where no offence of money-laundering is made out. Since then, ED has filed Closure Report before the concerned Special Court in 93 cases where no offence of money-laundering is made out due to various reasons such as Closure of Schedule offence case, cases where the Court finds no offence committed related to Schedule Offence defined under PMLA, quashing of Predicate Offence case etc. Prior to the aforesaid amendment (i.e. before 01.08.2019), cases  where  no  money-laundering  offence  was  made  out  were  closed  with  the  prior approval of regional Special Director of Enforcement. As such, since the inception of PMLA i.e. 01.07.2005 up to 31.07.2019, 1185 cases were closed.

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Annexure

| Sl. No.   | Period                | No. of Cases   |   No. of Main PCs filed |   No. of Supplementary PCs filed |   No. |   of accused convicted by Hon'ble Special Court, PMLA |
|-----------|-----------------------|----------------|-------------------------|----------------------------------|-------|-------------------------------------------------------|
| 1.        | 01.06.2014 31.03.2015 | to             |                     179 |                               55 |    04 |                                                     0 |
| 2.        | 01.04.2015 31.03.2016 | to             |                     110 |                               57 |    11 |                                                     0 |
| 3.        | 01.04.2016 31.03.2017 | to             |                     187 |                               99 |    11 |                                                     2 |
| 4.        | 01.04.2017 31.03.2018 | to             |                     163 |                               92 |    19 |                                                     2 |
| 5.        | 01.04.2018 31.03.2019 | to             |                     152 |                              234 |    59 |                                                     8 |
| 6.        | 01.04.2019 31.03.2020 | to             |                     557 |                               55 |    28 |                                                     7 |
| 7.        | 01.04.2020 31.03.2021 | to             |                     996 |                              140 |    39 |                                                     1 |
| 8.        | 01.04.2021 31.03.2022 | to             |                    1116 |                              128 |    46 |                                                     4 |
| 9.        | 01.04.2022 31.03.2023 | to             |                     953 |                              172 |    61 |                                                    24 |
| 10.       | 01.04.2023 31.03.2024 | to             |                     698 |                              281 |   100 |                                                    19 |
| 11.       | 01.04.2024 31.03.2025 | to             |                     775 |                              333 |   124 |                                                    38 |
| 12.       | 01.04.2025 31.10.2025 | to             |                     426 |                              159 |    66 |                                                    15 |
| TOTAL     | TOTAL                 | TOTAL          |                    6312 |                             1805 |   568 |                                                   120 |