New Delhi, April 25 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has returned assets worth over Rs.63,000 crore to victims, accounting for about 27% of the Rs.2.36 lakh crore it has attached so far under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), according to the latest data of the financial crimes probe agency.

A major chunk of money has been returned to the individual investors or victim banks in high profile cases involving Vijay Mallya ( Rs.14,131 crore), Pearl group ( Rs.15,582 crore), Sterling Biotech Ltd probe ( Rs.9,811 crore), Mehul Choksi ( Rs.2,565 crore), and Nirav Modi ( Rs.1,112 crore). To be sure, all the cases in the Sterling Biotech probe are now closed following a November 2025 Supreme Court order, but these assets were atta...