<h1>Enforcement Directorate bars investigators from summoning advocates in money laundering cases without director approval</h1> The Enforcement Directorate issued a circular directing investigators not to summon advocates in money laundering cases against their clients without director approval, following controversy over summons to senior advocates who provided legal advice regarding employee stock ownership plans. The agency withdrew one summons issued to an advocate in his capacity as independent director and kept another in abeyance. Bar associations had condemned the summons as violating lawyer-client privilege under professional communications law, calling it a disturbing trend affecting the legal profession's foundations.