Acting ED Director Rahul Navin empanelled as additional secretary at Centre

New Delhi: Acting ED Director Rahul Navin has been empanelled by the Union government to hold an additional secretary rank at the Centre.

Navin is a 1993-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the Income Tax cadre.

An order issued by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) on Thursday empanelled Navin in the additional secretary (AS) rank along with 15 other officers from various cadres.

He was appointed as the in-charge director or head of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in September following the end of tenure of Sanjay Kumar Mishra.

Navin holds expertise in international taxation laws and treaties and has been serving as the Special Director (vigilance) in the ED since his appointment at the agency from the Income Tax department in 2020.

The ED director post is an additional secretary rank post.  Mishra, a 1984-batch IRS officer, was promoted to the secretary rank while heading the ED.

The ED is a federal probe agency tasked to investigate financial crimes under three laws-- the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) and the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act (FEOA).