Officer who led ED probes against Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya takes VRS

NEW DELHI: Satyabrata Kumar, erstwhile Enforcement Directorate (ED) peculiar manager and pb researcher successful respective high-profile wealth laundering cases, including those against Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya and the Mahadev online betting app, has taken voluntary status from work (VRS).A 2004-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) serviceman of the Customs and Indirect Taxes cadre, Kumar was posted arsenic Commissioner (Appeals) successful Siliguri, West Bengal, aft being repatriated from the ED a twelvemonth ago.He served successful the ED for astir 12 years, making him 1 of the longest-serving officers connected deputation successful the agency.According to officials, the 48-year-old serviceman was granted support by the Union authorities to proceed connected VRS successful April, and ceremonial orders were issued earlier this month.The officer, who was scheduled to discontinue successful 2037, had astir 11 years of work remaining earlier attaining the superannuation property of 60 years, officials said.Sources told PTI that Kumar near authorities work to prosecute idiosyncratic pursuits.Kumar led investigations undertaken by the ED's Mumbai-based occidental determination office, including the alleged USD 2 cardinal slope fraud lawsuit against diamond traders Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, the slope indebtedness fraud lawsuit against liquor baron Vijay Mallya, and a fig of cases involving Maharashtra politicians.

He was instrumental successful the attachment of respective foreign-based assets worthy crores, identified arsenic proceeds of crime, successful the PNB fraud case.The ED's occidental determination bureau nether Kumar besides probed the Mahadev betting app case, successful which links to assorted Chhattisgarh-based politicians and businessmen emerged.This is the 2nd clip successful little than a twelvemonth that an serviceman has resigned from authorities work soon aft leaving the ED.In July 2025, Kapil Raj, a erstwhile ED associated manager who supervised the arrests of Hemant Soren and Arvind Kejriwal successful abstracted wealth laundering cases, resigned from work 15 years earlier his scheduled retirement.Raj belonged to the 2009-batch IRS (Customs and Indirect Taxes) and had served successful the ED for 8 years.He resigned portion serving arsenic further commissioner successful the GST Intelligence helping successful Delhi.