New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has arrested a man from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu following fresh round of searches in a money laundering case against the SDPI, the political front of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), official sources said Friday.
Wahidur Rahman Jainullabudeen was taken into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) from Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district on Thursday, the sources said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) made the arrest after conducting searches at the house of Jainullabudeen, who was brought to Delhi on Thursday night, and is expected to be produced before a special PMLA court on Friday, they said.
Fresh raids were launched by the agency on Thursday in Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Kerala.
The federal probe agency carried out the first round of searches in the case on March 6 after it arrested M K Faizy, the national president of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), from the Delhi airport on March 3.
