Story in Numbers: A deep dive into Enforcement Directorate's investigations

Chaudhary explained that searches in the course of investigation of money laundering cases are very important from the perspective of the collection of evidence

The Enforcement Directorate (ED), the agency that investigates money laundering and allied crime, has been criticised for its use against politicians from opposition parties.

In March this year, Congress MP Manish Tewari asked a series of searching questions about the ED’s performance in a written question in the Lok Sabha. Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary replied in a statement. Among the questions asked by Tewari were:
 

(a) Whether it is a fact that the ED has conducted over 1,700 raids and launched 1,569 special investi­g­a­tions between 2011 and 2020;

(b) Whether the conviction rate of ED, in raids conducted