Aizawl, June 8 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s Aizawl Sub-Zonal Office today widened its crackdown on an alleged cross-border narcotics syndicate, conducting searches in Mizoram, Tripura and West Bengal after tracing suspicious financial transactions worth more than Rs 142 crore linked to a major methamphetamine trafficking case.
The coordinated operation forms part of an ongoing money laundering investigation arising from one of the largest drug seizures reported in the region last year.
According to the ED, investigators are examining an extensive network that allegedly moved narcotics from Myanmar into India while simultaneously operating a sophisticated system to channel and conceal the proceeds generated from the illicit trade....