India, Oct. 25 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested six people and froze 1,424 bank accounts in Mizoram and Manipur on Friday in connection with a cross-border drug and money laundering case.

The probe agency, in a statement on Sunday, noted that searches in three money laundering cases exposed a single "narco-hawala ecosystem" that sends drug proceeds from across India back to suppliers in Myanmar.

The 1,424 bank accounts that the ED froze under Section 17(1A) of the PMLA belong to alleged narco-trade and narco-hawala operators and their mule and beneficiary account holders in Manipur and Mizoram.

The Northeast shares a 1,643 km porous border with Myanmar and has reportedly emerged as the main land corridor for drugs produced ...