The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday joined the CBI in conducting searches in connection with the 2G spectrum case and visited the house of alleged hawala operator Mahesh Jain here.
Official sources said a team of the Directorate visited the house of Jain in New Friends Colony area.
They said the ED team may also visit some other locations where the CBI was conducting searches. The CBI was carrying out raids in Tamil Nadu and Delhi.
The sources said Mr Jain’s name had figured during investigations into the 2G scam and that the Directorate has found that Mr Mahesh and his brother Alok Jain alias Bobby had allegedly registered companies as fronts.
The CBI sleuths searched the office and residential premises of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, former TRAI chairman Pradip Baijal and a Chennai NGO with which DMK MP Kanimozhi is linked in a crackdown here and in several places in Tamil Nadu.
Ms Radiia was earlier questioned by ED in connection with its probe.
