© hindustantimes.comED raids 25 locations across 3 states in illegal codeine-based cough syrup case
The searches covered more than 25 premises in Lucknow, Varanasi, Jaunpur and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh apart from those located in Ranchi and Ahmedabad, they said.
The locations covered include those of "absconding" main accused Shubham Jaiswal, his Chartered Accountant Vishnu Aggarwal, alleged associates Alok Singh , Amit Singh, Vishal Singh and some others apart from godowns, offices and shops of a number of manufacturers, distributors and stockists of various CBCS traders.
The federal probe agency recently booked a criminal case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act taking cognisance of about 30 UP Police FIRs that were registered to probe the misuse of CBCS, their illegal manufacturing, trade and transport including smuggling across the Bangladesh border.