The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it had seized Rs 29 lakh in cash and frozen multiple bank lockers and mutual fund investments following multi-city raids in a money laundering investigation linked to an alleged illegal human egg extraction racket in Maharashtra. 

Organised network allegedly recruited financially vulnerable women

The Maharashtra egg donation racket case pertains to an “organised network” involved in recruiting financially vulnerable women for human egg donation and supplying them to various in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centres and assisted reproductive technology (ART) banks through donor-supply agents operating under different proprietorships, the news agency reported.