India, Sept. 10 -- The Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) has issued notice to 15 Virtual Digital Assets Service Providers (VDA SPs) for non-compliance with anti-money laundering law and asked the entities to take down their application and URLs for public access.

The Director of FIU-IND issued the notices under Section 13 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, targeting entities operating without meeting India's anti-money laundering obligations. In a parallel step, the same official, acting as nodal officer under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000, read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2025, also sough...