New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- In a fresh move in the Salaya drug seizure case linked to the smuggling of 500 kg of heroin from Pakistan to India through a sea route, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has attached two Punjab-based immovable properties linked to a key accused having transnational network extending across Italy, Australia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Thailand, Iran and Pakistan.

The anti-terror agency said that the drug-trafficking transnational network was engaged in the smuggling and distribution of narcotics and channelising the proceeds to finance terrorist activities linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit, and that the attached properties had a connection with proceeds connected to terrorism.

As per the a...