New Delhi, July 27 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday carried out searches at two places in West Bengal and Chhattisgarh in connection with a human trafficking and cyber fraud case focusing on an international network that illegally transferred Indian citizens to Myanmar.

The searches were conducted at Durgapur in West Bengal and Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh.

The search operation was launched five months after the NIA, in mid-February, filed charges against three accused persons, including an absconding suspected Chinese national, in the human trafficking and cyber fraud racket, operated by Indian and foreign agents from Myanmar.

The accused. identified as Ankit Kumar alias Ankit Bharadwaj, Ishtikhar Ali alias Ali and Li...