Law on Prevention of Money Laundering in India

Commentary on the Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002, Related Regulations,
International Conventions and Allied Statutes
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Description
This book is a comprehensive manual on the law on Prevention of Money-laundering. Besides giving commentary on the provisions of the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002, it gives an account of other legislations such as the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and the Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018, and the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988, that touch upon the aspect of prevention of money laundering. A separate chapter also elaborates Reserve Bank of India's Know Your Customer Master Direction. This work is an essential reference on the subject for judges, lawyers, law students, law enforcement agencies, and establishments which are responsible for taking preventive measures to combat money-laundering.
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Contents
01.    Introduction
02.    Methods of Money-Laundering
03.    International Initiatives to Counter Money-Laundering
04.    The Prevention of Money-Laundering Act 2002 - Objects and Reasons, Preamble,
          Commencement and Principles of Interpretation
05.    Office of Money-Laundering
06.    Attachment, Adjudication and Confiscation
07.    Obligations of Reporting Entities
08.    Survey, Search, Seizure, Investigation and Arrest
09.    Appeals against the orders of the Adjudicating Authority and other Authorities
10.    Court of Trial and Special Provisions on Evidence
11.    Authorities under the Act
12.    Mutual Legal Assistance
13.    Schedule (Predicate) Offences
14.    Miscellaneous Provisions
15.    Reserve Bank of India's know your Customer (KYC) Master Direction
16.    Other Important Acts that Address The Issues Relating to the Problem of Money-Laundering
Appendix 1 to 46

Subject index
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Author Details
Dr M C Mehanathan, a Doctor of Laws, is an alumnus of the Scott Christian College, Nagercoil; Government College of Law, Thiruvananthapuram; Law Academy's Centre for Advanced Legal Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, and Postgraduate Department of Law, Nagpur University. Having started his career as an advocate in the year 1978, he joined the Government of India in 1982 through the Civil Services Examination, 1980. During his career in the Government of India, which lasted up to October 2013, for about eight years, he held the position of Dy. Legal Adviser/Legal Adviser of the Narcotics Control Bureau. After superannuating from the Government of India as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, he decided to resume his practice as an advocate before the higher courts in Delhi. Other books authored by Dr Mehanathan are Lair of Control on Narcotic Drugs and Psycliotroyic Substances in India and International Legal Control on Narcotic Drugs and psychotropic Substances.
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