Overview
- The Enforcement Directorate conducted simultaneous searches at four sites across Mizoram, Tripura and West Bengal on Monday as part of a money‑laundering probe linked to a cross‑border drug network.
- The PMLA case grew out of a Narcotics Control Bureau seizure of 49.101 kg of methamphetamine tablets and 40 g of heroin on August 21, 2025, which triggered follow‑on financial and operational tracing.
- ED investigators say they have identified about Rs 142 crore in suspected proceeds that were allegedly layered through multiple bank accounts and shell entities to hide the drug money.
- The agency reported the arrest of eight people during the operations and named suspected actors and accounts; the probe also builds on an NCB arrest in May of an alleged Myanmar‑based supplier, Chintuang alias Tluanga.
- Seized documents, bank records and digital devices are under forensic study as investigators map routes from Myanmar through the Champhai/Zokhawthar corridor into Tripura and work to trace assets, potential additional suspects and further enforcement targets.