India, June 6 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was on Friday conducting searches at actor Dino Morea's residences and 14 other premises in Mumbai and Kerala as part of its probe into the alleged irregularities in contracts for Mithi River desilting in Maharashtra.

Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has questioned Morea over financial transactions his brother, Santino, had with the arrested accused Ketan Kadam. Kadam was among 13 people booked for allegedly causing the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) a loss of Rs.65.54 crore in the desilting project.

The EOW said BMC officials travelled to Kochi in October 2020 to buy desilting equipment from Matprop Technical Services Pvt Ltd and floated tenders inviting bids for d...