ED Raids Luthra Brothers' Premises in Goa Nightclub Fire Money Laundering Probe

• The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at eight locations in Delhi and Goa on January 23 in connection with the December 2025 Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub fire that killed 25 people.
• The raids targeted residential and office premises of nightclub promoters Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, co-owner Ajay Gupta, former Sarpanch Roshan Redkar, Panchayat Secretary Raghuvir Bagkar, and Surinder Kumar Khosla.
• The money-laundering probe under PMLA focuses on illegal construction, regulatory violations, unlawful operations, and the illegal conversion of khazan land where the club was situated.
• The Luthra brothers, who fled to Thailand after the fire, were deported on December 17, 2025, and are currently in police custody.
• Legal experts suggest the ED's probe aims to link sustained regulatory violations and corruption with financial wrongdoing, treating revenues from the unlawfully operated club as 'proceeds of crime'.

Why It Matters: ED intensifies probe into Goa nightclub fire, targeting promoters and officials over money laundering and illegal operations.