Territorial jurisdiction under PMLA may be concurrent, allowing transfer to align money-laundering proceedings with the connected scheduled offence.

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....Territorial jurisdiction for a money-laundering offence may lie with any Special Court covering a local area where proceeds of crime are derived, obtained, concealed, possessed, acquired, used or projected as untainted property. The notes state that acquisition of alleged proceeds and attachment of related land at Gurugram made institution there competent, while concealment of proceeds attached at Delhi also created concurrent jurisdiction. Where the connected scheduled offence had been transferred to Delhi, transferring the PMLA proceeding there was considered expedient so that both matters could be tried by a Special Court having jurisdiction over the laundering offence. The proceeding was to continue at its existing stage.....