ED says cryptocurrency frauds and terror financing are new focus areas

Enforcement Directorate Director Rahul Navin said cryptocurrency frauds, terror financing, cyber-enabled crimes and narcotics trafficking are emerging focus areas for the agency. He also highlighted a 94 per cent conviction rate and recovery of assets worth Rs 63,142 crore

New Delhi: Cryptocurrency frauds, terror financing, cyber-enabled crimes and narcotics trafficking are the new focus areas for the Enforcement Directorate, the agency’s Director Rahul Navin said on Friday.

Speaking during the 70th ‘ED Day’ event held here, he noted that bank and real estate frauds have declined due to the implementation of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Act and the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act (RERA).

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During 2025-26, the ED filed 812 chargesheets and 155 supplementary chargesheets, which is nearly twice the number filed in the previous comparable fiscal, he said.

He added that the conviction rate of the agency was 94 per cent.

The director said 2,400 money laundering cases were pending trial in courts and expressed optimism that “most” of these would result in conviction.

Navin said the agency has restituted assets worth Rs 63,142 crore to victims of financial fraud, including homebuyers, investors and banks.

The federal probe agency was established on May 1, 1956.

It implements two criminal laws, the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA), apart from the civil provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).