The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday continued its searches at places linked to Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara as part of the probe into an alleged gold smuggling-linked money laundering case against Kannada actress Ranya Rao and others.

According to sources, the agency carried out seraches at Siddhartha Engineering College, Siddhartha Medical College and Siddhartha College. The ED sleuths on Wednesday raided 16 locations in the state under the PMLA targeting hawala operators and accommodation entry operators who allegedly made “fake” financial transactions into Rao’s accounts.