New Delhi, July 30 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday carried out searches at 16 places across Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Telangana in connection with a money laundering investigation related to terror funding of the Coimbatore bomb blast incident that happened in 2022.

The agency's search operation has been underway since early morning. ED's Chennai zonal office conducted searches at these locations across Chennai and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, Hyderabad in Telangana and Mumbai in Maharashtra, covering the places linked to suspects having connections in the case.

The ED investigation was initiated on basis of various First Information Reports (FIRs) registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), in connection with ...