ED Cracks Down On Alleged Areca Nut Smuggling Racket, Raids Multiple Locations In Mizoram

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• ED Cracks Down On Alleged Areca Nut Smuggling Racket, Raids Multiple Locations In Mizoram Reported By, Edited By Last Updated: June 04, 2026, 14:40 IST ED raids nine locations in Mizoram's Champhai in a money laundering probe linked to an alleged cross-border Myanmar areca nut smuggling network.
• ED raids in Mizoram (Photos: CNN-News18) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) on Thursday carried out searches at nine locations in Champhai, a key border town along the India-Myanmar frontier in Mizoram, as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged large-scale illegal areca nut (supari) smuggling network operating across the international border.
• According to information accessed by CNN-News18, the searches were being conducted under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, following findings that point to a well-organised cross-border syndicate involved in the smuggling of dry areca nuts from Myanmar into India.
• Investigators suspect that the network relied on fraudulent...