The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted multi-state searches as part of a terror financing-linked money laundering investigation against an ISIS module. The teams were supported by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra for the raid undertaken in the state while central security forces assisted them in other areas, reports said.

The raids were carried out under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). They 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, reports said.

The ED had filed a case under the PMLA taking cognisance of a NIA chargesheet that alleged that certain individuals were part of a

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