New Delhi, May 14 -- In a major breakthrough, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday launched extensive searches in a money laundering case against a syndicate accused of forging documents and impersonating office bearers to illegally sell prime properties of the Spiritual Regeneration Movement Foundation of India (SRMF).

Officials, privy to the development, told ANI that the sensational case involves fraudulent land transactions worth over hundreds of crores, with the ED now zeroing in on the key conspirators after recording an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) on May 7 this year.

The ED's preliminary investigations have identified G Ram Chandra Mohan and Akash Malviya as the principal suspects and alleged masterminds be...