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Rahul Navin, a 1993-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer of the Income Tax cadre, has been appointed as the full-time Director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has made this appointment for two years. Before this, Navin served as the ED's Acting Director after the tenure of his predecessor Sanjay Kumar Mishra ended on September 15, 2022.

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Who Is Rahul Navin

- A 57-year-old Navin joined the ED in November 2019 as a Special Director (OSD) to spearhead the agency's work with regard to India's mutual evaluation by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global body that leads action against money laundering.

- He was appointed as the acting director of the ED after the tenure of his predecessor Sanjay Kumar Mishra came to an end on September 15 last year.

- Navin's tenure as the acting ED head saw the high-profile arrests of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren in separate money laundering cases.

- Navin did a BTech and an MTech from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

- He belongs to Bihar and has worked in the Income Tax Department for 30 years. During his stint in the international taxation wing during 2004-08, the I-T department raised demands on several offshore transactions, including the Vodafone case.

- The IRS officer has authored various international taxation and transfer pricing journals and articles in the I-T department that are taught to trainee IRS officers at their alma mater, the National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT) in Nagpur, Maharashtra.

- He also authored a guiding book titled "Information Exchange and Tax Transparency: Tackling Global Tax Evasion and Avoidance" which was published in 2017.