India, Oct. 11 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday seized Rs.42 lakh cash, three second-hand, high-end vehicles, including a BMW car, froze a bank locker and several bank accounts suspected of having proceeds of crime (POC), allegedly related to a well-established narcotic-trafficking network linked to a wanted drug kingpin, Salim Ismail Dola, 57. The agency carried out searches at nine premises in the city as part of a money laundering probe related to Dola, who is believed to be residing abroad.

The searches focused on tracing the POC - drug sale proceeds - generated by a network of Dola's associates, one helmed by Faisal Javed Shaikh-who is currently in preventive detention in a Chennai jail-and his wife Alfiya, who alleg...