Overview

• The Ministry of Finance approved Raj’s resignation from the Indian Revenue Service effective July 17, ending his 16 years of government service
• He spent about eight years on deputation to the Enforcement Directorate where he supervised the arrests of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal
• Until his exit, Raj was Additional Commissioner in Delhi’s GST Intelligence wing overseeing complex indirect tax enforcement
• Earlier in his career as a deputy director in Mumbai, he led probes into money laundering cases involving Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi, DHFL and Iqbal Mirchi
• Sources close to Raj cite personal reasons for his mid-career departure and his exit creates a key vacancy in federal financial enforcement leadership