Raids doubled, attachments soared: Centre clears 60% manpower enlargement for ED | India Information
3 min learnNew DelhiCould 28, 2026 11:04 AM IST
The Centre Wednesday sanctioned a big manpower enhance for the Enforcement Directorate (ED), authorising greater than 1,200 further investigators and workers for the anti-money laundering company, amid rising circumstances, advanced investigations, together with cybercrimes, Synthetic Intelligence and cryptocurrency, and enforcement actions over time.
The Ministry of Finance had accepted the much-awaited cadre restructuring of the company after 15 years, enhancing its workforce by greater than 60 per cent – from 2,029 to three,256. The ministry revised ED’s power by 1,227 personnel throughout its six cadres, together with the chief, authorized, and adjudication verticals that type the core of its investigation setup.
Of this, 803 further officers have been added to the rank of Assistant Enforcement Officer, 606 to Enforcement Officer, and 531 to Assistant Director of Enforcement.
The final cadre restructuring of ED, undertaken to reorient an organisation to satisfy new and upcoming challenges, occurred in 2011.
Official knowledge reveals that searches or raids performed by the company below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) nearly doubled to 2,892 in the course of the 2025-26 monetary 12 months, whereas it additionally led to the highest-ever provisional attachment of belongings in that 12 months.
Earlier, ED Director Rahul Navin had stated attachments below the PMLA have risen sharply over time.
“Within the first decade after the legislation got here into power, from 2005 to 2014, complete attachments stood at Rs 5,171.32 crore, averaging about Rs 574.6 crore yearly. Within the following decade, from 2014 to 2024, this rose to Rs 1,19,386.25 crore. In 2024-25, the ED hooked up properties price Rs 30,036.41 crore, whereas in 2025-26 the determine rose to Rs 81,422.63 crore. Attachments in a single monetary 12 months at the moment are greater than fifteen occasions the cumulative complete of the Act’s first decade.”
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ED raids doubled within the 2025-26 monetary 12 months, as in comparison with 1,491 within the earlier fiscal.
The company filed 812 chargesheets throughout FY26, in comparison with 457 such complaints for prosecution filed earlier than the courts the earlier 12 months. The variety of Enforcement Case Info Stories (ECIRs), registered to set off PMLA probes, additionally jumped 39 per cent to 1,080 within the final fiscal, in comparison with 775 circumstances filed throughout FY25.
