Who are Money Commandos? How they are helping Modi govt in seizing black money? Know everything here

New Delhi: In Karnataka's Chitradurga, how notes were recovered from the bathroom? In Chennai, how the information about money inside a home got leaked? How money from a lawyer's house in Delhi got recovered? How the information about money in a suitcase inside a Delhi's hotel got known? People had black money earlier also but why now they are getting caught? Institutes like the Police, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) were there earlier too, then why culprits were not getting caught? A lot of cases of people getting arrested with money, after notes ban, is coming to light. Who is giving information about these notes? The answer to all these questions is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Money Commandos (Mudra Rakshakas). Who are these Money Commandos and how they work, here we are telling you about their modus operandi. Modi's team of Money Commandos comprises of officials from IT, ED, Intelligence Bureau (IB), Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) and last but not the least police. POLICE: The police which is present everywhere keeps an eye on every money-related activity. Cops come into action spotting anything suspicious. It collects information and then takes action. In all this, cops take help from its mukhbirs (Informers). IT: The police then inform Income-Tax (IT) department about the matters related to money. The IT department also takes help from its informers about tainted people and in return also gives them (informers) some percentage of money for their services. The most important thing is, IT department gets direct information from banks. Banks provide the information about how much money their customers are depositing in their accounts. And on the basis of this information, at regular intervals, IT department conducts raids to know the source of wealth of suspected people. ED: The Enforcement Directorate which operates under the Foreign Exchange Management Act 1999 (FEMA) and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 (PMLA) has also an important role to play. The biggest use of black money is done by Hawala operators and ED is really good in spotting and catching them. AIU: The Air Intelligence Unit keeps an eye on every activity at the airports. They work along with CISF. When it comes to light that a passenger is traveling with the huge sum of black money, he/she is arrested by the AIU at the airport only. IB: Intelligence Bureau plays very important role in seizing black money. They collect every information at the grassroots level. The biggest raids, reportedly, are being conducted after getting information from IB. These agencies work in sync and as a result of this, people with black money are getting caught everyday.