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The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted multi-state searches as part of terror financing-linked money laundering investigation against a “highly radicalised” module of banned global terrorist group ISIS that had its base in Thane’s Padgha village, officials said.

The raids were launched early morning at 40 locations, including in the twin villages of Padgha-Borivali in Maharashtra’s Thane apart from Ratnagiri district and locations in Delhi, Kolkata and some towns of Uttar Pradesh, they said.

The federal agency filed a case under the PMLA taking cognisance of a November, 2023 NIA case which alleged that certain individuals were part of a “highly radicalised” ISIS-linked module and engaged in recruitment, training, procurement of weapons and explosives and raising funds

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