Chennai: On Thursday, official sources confirmed that the Enforcement Directorate has conducted more searches related to its ongoing money laundering investigation against Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji and others.
They reported that properties in Coimbatore and Karur were being searched because they were connected to entities and alleged benamidars (the person in whose name a benami property is registered).
Despite his arrest by the ED on June 14 in a money laundering case related to an alleged cash-for-jobs fraud in the Tamil Nadu transport department, Balaji continues to serve as a minister without portfolio in the Tamil Nadu government.—Inputes from Agencies