Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 · Chapter V: Summons, Searches and Seizures, Etc.
Section 23: Presumption in inter-connected transactions
Where money-laundering involves two or more inter-connected transactions and one or more such transactions is or are proved to be involved in money-laundering, then for the purposes of adjudication or confiscation [under section 8 or for the trial of the money-laundering offence, it shall unless otherwise proved to the satisfaction of the Adjudicating Authority or the Special Court], be presumed that the remaining transactions from part of such interconnected transactions.
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