Chennai, May 16 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted fresh searches in Tamil Nadu in connection with the TASMAC-linked money laundering case, officials said.

About 10 locations linked to TASMAC officials and agents are being raided under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.

TASMAC is a state government body that has monopoly over liquor trade in the state.

The federal probe agency had conducted the first set of raids in this case in March.

It had then said that alleged irregularities in the operations of TASMAC were found including "manipulation" in the tender processes and "unaccounted" cash transactions of Rs 1,000 crore through distillery companies. PTI NES MNK MNK

Money laundering probe under PMLA resumes with fresh searches in state liquor monopoly-linked operations, targeting alleged tender manipulation. Fresh searches were conducted under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in Tamil Nadu in a TASMAC-linked money laundering investigation; about ten locations linked to TASMAC officials and agents were raided to probe alleged tender manipulation and unaccounted cash transactions routed through distillery companies, following earlier raids in March.