India, Sept. 3 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday launched raids at 30 locations in Keralam, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Telangana in connection with separate money laundering probes into several drug smuggling networks, officials said, terming at an action under Centre's campaign against drugs.

The agency investigation under the prevention of money laundering act or PMLA stems from a total of eight cases registered by the local police in these states or the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) since 2022.

Sharing details of the individual cases, officials said that in Tamil Nadu, NCB had intercepted Sri Lankan citizens - N Ajanthan and k Madhusudan, who were living at a refugee camp in Ramanathapuram, on June 11, 2024, with 1.47 k...