The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) has conducted search operations at ten premises in Delhi, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Mumbai, Solapur, and Indore in connection with the case of Jasmeet Hakimzada, an international drug trafficker operating from Gulf countries. He is also listed as a ‘Significant Foreign Narcotics Trafficker’ under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act of the United States.

The searches were conducted under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). The ED stated that Jasmeet is also included in the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, United States.
The ED initiated the investigation based on an FIR registered by the NIA against him and others under various sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for unlawful activities and drug trafficking. The ED’s investigation revealed that Jasmeet, residing in Dubai, was operating a narco-terror network in India. He was sending the proceeds of crime generated from drug trafficking by the proscribed terrorist organization Khalistan Liberation Force through Hawala to Dubai, with the assistance of full-fledged money exchangers situated in Amritsar.

During the search operations, secret bank lockers in the names of Jasmeet Hakimzada and his wife in Delhi were discovered, containing approximately one kilogram of unaccounted gold and 370 grams of diamond ornaments.