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Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday carried out search operations at eight locations across Mumbai in connection with a money laundering investigation linked to a major drug trafficking network, officials said. ED's Mumbai Zonal Office conducted the searches under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.

"The operation aims to trace and seize the suspected drug sale proceeds acquired through the illicit network allegedly run by Faisal Javed Shaikh and his associate, Alfiya Faisal Shaikh," said the officials. ED's preliminary investigation suggests that "Faisal Javed Shaikh was procuring MD drugs through Salim Dola, a notorious drug trafficker with a long criminal record." Dola, wh

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