BENGALURU, June 25 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday searched multiple properties linked to the additional commissioner of the Karnataka excise department, Y Manjunath, who is also the brother-in-law of state public works minister Satish Jarkiholi, in an investigation into alleged suspicious foreign transactions and suspected benami assets, people familiar with the matter said.

The coordinated searches began early Wednesday at Manjunath's residence in Hanumanth Nagar in Belagavi and extended to an apartment linked to him in Bengaluru, a friend's house in Ainapur village in Athani taluk, and properties belonging to his relatives and close associates in Mysuru, Arsikere and Tumakuru, the people said. Officials examined docum...