Overview
- Zonal units were told to prioritise mature cases to meet the goal of 500 prosecution complaints in the current financial year.
- Most investigations are to conclude within one to two years of case registration, except in exceptionally complex matters.
- Eight priority areas were flagged: foreign asset tracing, IBC misuse, trade-based laundering, cyber fraud and digital-arrest scams, illegal online gambling, drug financing and hawala, share-market manipulation, and illicit foreign funding for interference.
- Officers were directed to intensify overseas asset-tracing, especially in Dubai and Singapore, using MLATs, letters rogatory, extradition, and Interpol/BHARATPOL colour notices.
- Leadership urged judicious use of PMLA powers and summons, ordered completion of all pending FERA adjudications by March 31, and pressed greater use of NATGRID and FINNET despite manpower, sanction, and inter-agency cooperation constraints.