Special teams of the Enforcement Directorate launched searches at multiple locations across Tamil Nadu in connection with the alleged multi-crore sand mining scam in the State.
Sources in the Central agency said that investigators were verifying huge money transfers involving certain individuals, contractors and prime suspects in the scam.
The ED, in its investigation that began in September last year, is looking into money-laundering offences in the illegal sale of river sand to the tune of ₹4,730 crore, and us now scrutinising the source and flow of funds in what appears to be suspicious transactions, the sources said.
