Indian police raided 15 locations in Punjab, Delhi and Chandigarh overnight as they tracked a massive drug and money laundering operation with links to Canada Wednesday.
No disclosures were being made by Enforcement Directorate officials but sources told IANS that the alleged money laundering could involve more than $130 million.
Many of the raids centred on properties of a Punjab drug lord, Raja Kandola, who is now lodged in Tihar jail following his arrest August last year. Raids were also conducted in Delhi’s Karol Bagh area, Paharganj, Sainik Farms, Gurgaon’s DLF colony, in Chandigarh and Punjab’s towns of Jalandhar, Nawanshahr, Sunam, Garhshankar, Abohar, Samrala and Mohali, sources said.
Enforcement Directorate’s Assistant Director Niranjan Singh said his officers were probing connections between the India drug mafia and Non-resident Indians living overseas.
Kandola, a.k.a. Ranjit Singh, was operating a party-drug manufacturing operation in Punjab, real estate scams and an illegal immigration operation, police said after his arrest.
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