When ED Shares Information with Another Authority Under Section 66: What Happens to the Downstream Case?

Section 66 PMLA allows the Enforcement Directorate to furnish information obtained during PMLA functions to tax, duty, foreign-exchange and other eligible authorities and requires information sharing where ED forms the statutory opinion that another law has been contravened. But a Section 66 communication is an information-transfer mechanism, not automatic proof of the downstream offence. This detailed guide examines derivative police FIRs, Income-tax reassessment, Customs notices, SEBI and other regulatory inquiries; explains when the receiving authority must apply its own statutory jurisdict

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