'Extortion Racket & BJP Washing Machine': Saket Gokhale Slams ED
New Delhi: TMC MP Saket Gokhale on Thursday slammed Enforcement Directorate (ED) for working as a political mafia for Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Shah. He made the charges against the money laundering agency, citing data received in response to his parliamentary question.
Gokhale leveled charges against the ED on his social media platform X, detailing information received from Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary. This came in response to a parliamentary question Gokhale posed the central government regarding the number of ED cases that proceeded to trial.
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In the past 10 years, ED has filed 5892 cases for investigation under the provisions of the Prevention of Money-laundering Act 2002 (PMLA).
In these cases, 1398 Prosecution Complaints, including 353 Supplementary Complaints, have been filed. These were submitted to the Special Courts under PMLA, 2002. Of these, the Special Courts have taken charges in 300 Prosecution Complaints and it includes 66 Supplementary Complaints.
Shocking details given by Modi Govt in Parliament
*How ED works as a political mafia for Modi & Shah*
Yesterday, in Parliament, I asked the Modi Govt a question about the number of cases filed by ED that actually went to court for trial.
Here’s the shocking information:
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— Saket Gokhale MP (@SaketGokhale) July 31, 2025
“As of June 30, 2025, the PMLA Special Courts have convicted 15 people. These convictions came from 8 separate orders in these cases,” the government stated.
The government further highlighted that the probe agency has filed closure reports in 49 cases which were recorded in the last 10 years and submitted before the Hon’ble Special Court, PMLA.
Gokhale held that out of all cases filed by ED in the last 10 years, 77% cases never made it to court for trial due to zero evidence and only 8 resulted in a conviction. It implies, after spending crores of public money & jailing thousands of people, accused were found guilty by courts in only 0.13% cases.
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Modi Government has used the ED as a “personal mafia to target the Opposition”, TMC MP alleged. In ED cases, the legal process itself is punishment, which mean that individuals, even if innocent, can be held for months.
“ED is nothing but a criminal syndicate of Modi & Shah whose only task is to run extortion rackets & washing machines for the BJP,” Gokhale stated.
