Overview

• Enforcement Directorate teams conducted follow-up searches at seven locations in Mansa, Kurukshetra and Karnal based on credible inputs from initial July 9 operations.
• Investigators seized 30 original passports along with digital devices and documents that reveal cash and hawala transactions worth crores of rupees.
• The probe builds on statements recorded from deportees flown back from the US in February, which helped identify new suspects in the trafficking network.
• Officials say travel agents charged migrants ₹45–55 lakh and colluded with donkers and local mafia to extort additional payments during perilous jungle and border crossings.
• The agency is mapping a sprawling network of agents, middlemen and immigration firms to file money-laundering and human-trafficking charges under the PMLA.