India, Dec. 18 -- Three days after confiscating properties worth Rs.5.41 crore, the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided 13 locations in Punjab and Haryana besides Delhi as part of the money-laundering probe in connection with the "donkey route" or illegal immigration racket.

ED officials said that on the basis of evidence gathered during searches in February and July, the names of "second and third layer" persons involved in human trafficking came to light. "The name of Jalandhar-based travel firm Richi Travels surfaced in the ED investigation following which raids are underway at the offices and residences of its stakeholders. Raids are on at travel firms owned by Balwan Sharma of Panipat and Tarun Khosla of New Delhi," an ED off...