India, Dec. 13 -- Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided multiple locations in various states as part of a money laundering probe against an alleged illegal codeine-based cough syrup (CBCS) trade racket in Uttar Pradesh, officials said. The searches covered more than 25 premises in Lucknow, Varanasi, Jaunpur and Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, apart from those located in Ranchi and Ahmedabad, they said.

The locations covered include those of "absconding" main accused Shubham Jaiswal, his Chartered Accountant (CA) Vishnu Aggarwal, alleged associates Alok Singh (a dismissed-UP Police constable), Amit Singh, Vishal Singh and some others apart from godowns, offices and shops of a number of manufacturers, distributors and stockists of various ...