India, Oct. 9 -- The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday carried out searches at eight premises in Mumbai, including Dongri, as part of its money-laundering investigation into narcotics-trafficking networks and associates linked to alleged drug kingpin Salim Ismail Dola (57), who is on the run and believed to be abroad.

The agency's search focussed on detecting and tracing the alleged proceeds of crime generated by the network of Dola and those of his alleged associates, including one helmed by Faisal Javed Shaikh-who is currently in preventive detention in a Chennai jail-and his wife Alfiya. Faisal's network had allegedly purchased consignments of the banned psychotropic substance, Mephedrone or MD, through Dola's network, an ED offici...