Overview
- Fresh search operations were conducted on December 31 and January 1 across Delhi, Mumbai, Surat, Lucknow and Varanasi in the money-laundering investigation.
- Officials seized a Land Rover Defender and a BMW Z4 tied to Anurag Dwivedi, along with incriminating documents and digital devices.
- An earlier December 17 round of searches yielded four vehicles including a Lamborghini Urus and about Rs 20 lakh in cash, with movable assets of roughly Rs 3 crore frozen under Section 17(1A) of the PMLA.
- The ED states Dwivedi has left India, is residing in Dubai and has not appeared despite multiple summons.
- The probe stems from a West Bengal Police FIR, identifies operations run from Siliguri by Sonu Kumar Thakur and Vishal Bhardwaj, and has seen three arrests, an August 2025 chargesheet and earlier asset freezes or attachments of about Rs 27 crore.