Bengaluru, Sept. 10 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today arrested Karnataka Congress legislator Satish Krishna Sail in connection with an alleged money laundering case linked to illegal iron ore exports, official sources said, intensifying the central agency's crackdown on political leaders in the state.
Sail, 59, who represents the Karwar Assembly constituency in Uttara Kannada district, was taken into custody during the intervening night of September 9-10 after several hours of questioning at the ED's Bengaluru zonal office. He was produced before a special court in Bengaluru, which remanded him to one-day ED custody.
The MLA will be produced again when the agency is expected to seek further custodial remand for detailed interrogat...