Chennai, Oct. 13 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted coordinated raidstoday at the offices and residential premises of officials of Tamil Nadu Drug ControlDepartment and Sreesan Pharma, as part of a money laundering probe following thedeaths of 20 children in Madhya Pradesh after being administered the cough syrup,Coldrif, even as the Tamil Nadu Government cancelled the licence of the companyand ordered its permament closure.
The searches were carried out at least in seven places in Chennai and neighbouringKancheepuram district where the company's manufacturing facility is located andwhere the syrup was manufactured.
Earlier, the state government had suspended two senior Drug Inspectors of Kancheepuramdistrict for their failure ...