One such intervention, the ED said in a statement, had already led to an order starting insolvency proceedings against a company being recalled.
On the staff expansion, the ED said in a statement that its sanctioned strength will go up from 2,029 to 3,256 posts. The agency will now have 50 zones handling money-laundering cases and five separate zones — in Delhi, Chandigarh, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai — handling foreign exchange violation cases.
The number of smaller functional units will nearly double, from 131 to 241.
This will roll out from January 1, 2027, and the ED said in a statement that the goal is to cut the time an investigation takes from four to five years down to about a year and a half.
Navin had asked all zonal heads to…