TW Newsdesk, March 18: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out raids at several locations in Aurangabad as part of its money-laundering investigation into an alleged fraud in the tender process conducted in relation to the PMAY (Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana)-Urban scheme of the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation.

The ED investigation is based on a case filed by the Aurangabad police against three bidders – Samarth Multibiz India Pvt Ltd, Indoglobal Infrastructure Services and Jaguar Global Services – who allegedly resgistered their e-tenders from a single computer, which meant they had a common Internet Protocol (IP) address, which amounted to a bid to form a cartel, a practice restricted in the tender process.