The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will investigate money trail and money laundering angles of a brown sugar seizure case registered in Nilagiri of Baleswar district in March.
This is for the first time that the Central agency specialised in probing financial irregularities will investigate the drug case in Odisha.
On March 18, the Special Task Force (STF) of State Crime Branch had arrested two persons in Nilagiri and seized 2.729 kg of brown sugar from their possession. The estimated market value of the seized contraband sugar was Rs 2.7 crore, said an official.
The accused were Lokanath Behera and Pradeep Kumar Das. The official added the accused used to purchase brown sugar from West Bengal and supply it to several parts of Odisha.