ED Raids Against Reliance Group Companies Continue for Third Day

The searches, being conducted under the PMLA, are continuing at some locations out of the more than 35 premises that were covered in Mumbai since Thursday

- OUR CORRESPONDENT

MUMBAI: Enforcement Directorate searches against the companies of Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani in Mumbai continued for the third day on Saturday with the agency recovering a number of documents and computer peripherals from multiple locations, official sources said.

The raids were launched on July 24 by the federal probe agency as part of an alleged Rs 3,000 crore worth bank loan fraud-linked money laundering case apart from multiple other allegations of financial irregularities with crores of rupees by certain companies.

The searches, being conducted under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), are continuing at some locations out of the more than 35 premises that were covered in Mumbai since Thursday, the sources said. These premises belong to 50 companies and 25 people including a number of executives of the Anil Ambani Group companies.