Guwahati, June 4 -- By NE NOW NEWS

Guwahati: As part of a money laundering investigation connected to an alleged cross-border areca nut smuggling scheme, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) searched several places in Mizoram on June 4, according to officials.

The CIA said that operations were conducted at about nine locations connected to important smuggling network facilitators operating along the Champhai border, which is shared with Myanmar.The probe, according to officials, is centered on what they called a highly organized network engaged in the widespread smuggling of areca nuts from Myanmar, sometimes referred to as Burmese supari, into India.

The defendants, according to the ED, carried areca nuts across the Tiau River illegally, ...