Are India’s corruption police targeting Narendra Modi’s critics?
Money-laundering raids, many on the opposition, have increased 27-fold in the past decade
The Enforcement Directorate used to be a sleepy corner of India’s finance ministry. Mandated to investigate money-laundering and foreign-exchange violations, it rarely made headlines under the previous government, a coalition led by the Congress party, which ruled from 2004 to 2014. Its record on money-laundering—a big problem in India—was particularly lacklustre: it conducted only 112 raids and failed to achieve a single conviction.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Rule of Modi”
Asia February 10th 2024
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