The Enforcement Directorate Thursday conducted multi-state searches as part of a terror financing-linked money laundering investigation against a “highly radicalised” ISIS module, officials said.

The raids were launched early morning at 40 locations, including in the Padgha-Borivali area of Thane in Maharashtra (near Mumbai), apart from Ratnagiri district and locations in Delhi, Kolkata and some towns of Uttar Pradesh, they said.

The ED teams were provided security by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra for the raid undertaken in the state, while central security forces assisted them in other areas, the officials said.

The federal agency filed a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), taking cognisance of an NIA chargesheet that alleged that certain individua

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