Kolkata, Nov. 23 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized cash and jewellery, including gold worth over Rs 14 crore and a substantial volume of incriminating evidence relating to property deeds, during its Friday crackdown against coal mafia and their syndicated network in West Bengal and Jharkhand.
The evidence were all allegedly linked to coal smuggling, an ED official said on Sunday.
The agency also seized syndicated agreement papers of sale, purchase of land, and several digital devices, and books of accounts of entities controlled by the promoters of these clandestine business.
The raids and intensive search operations were conducted at 44 premises in the two states under the Money Laundering Act regarding the large-scale ille...