{"id":1023316,"date":"2026-07-24T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T04:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023316"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:55:52","slug":"ed-arrests-dubai-based-indian-national-in-cross-border-crypto-hawala-narcotics-money-laundering-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/ed-arrests-dubai-based-indian-national-in-cross-border-crypto-hawala-narcotics-money-laundering-case\/","title":{"rendered":"ED arrests Dubai-based Indian national in cross-border crypto-hawala, narcotics money laundering case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a Dubai-based Indian national in connection with an alleged cross-border crypto-hawala network used to launder narcotics money for international drug cartels, the agency said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The accused, identified as Nihal VN, was produced before a Special PMLA Court in Goa, which remanded him to ED custody for seven days till July 28. <\/p>\n<p>According to the ED, Nihal VN acted as a key financial conduit for drug syndicates operating across multiple continents. The agency alleged that he converted cash proceeds from narcotics sales in India into cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested a Dubai-based Indian national in connection with an alleged cross-border crypto-hawala network used to launder narcotics money for international drug cartels, the agency said on Thursday. The accused, identified as Nihal VN, was produced before a Special PMLA Court in Goa, which remanded him to ED custody for seven days till July 28. According to the ED, Nihal VN acted as a key financial conduit for drug syndicates operating across multiple continents. The agency alleged that he converted cash proceeds from narcotics sales in India into cryptocurrencies and foreign exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023399,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023316\/revisions\/1023399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}