India, July 8 -- LUCKNOW The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday carried out searches at multiple locations in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi and Lucknow in connection with an ongoing money laundering probe against former Samajwadi Party MLA Deep Narayan Singh Yadav and his associates, officials said.

The searches, carried out by the ED's Allahabad zonal office under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), began early in the morning with multiple teams fanning out across the two districts.

In Lucknow, ED officials searched two flats allegedly linked to the former MLA's family - one on the sixth floor of Eldeco Emperor Apartments in Sarojini Nagar and another flat at Sunrise Apartment, Sector-P, Mansarovar Yojana, ...