Sex routes in money laundering

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Sex routes in money laundering busted

By A Correspondent, Kolkata
November 07, 2025
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Prostitution has long been a soft medium for money laundering, the sleuths have detected, and some subsequent arrests ratified this in Kolkata today.

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted simultaneous searches in separate West Bengal locations as part of a money laundering investigation into an alleged "organised" human trafficking and prostitution racket being operated in certain bars and restaurants, the top officials said today.

At least eight premises in Bidhannagar (North 24 Parganas district), Kolkata and Siliguri were raided by the federal probe agency under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said.