The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at two residences of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in Nagpur district on Sunday as part of a probe into a money laundering case, a police official said.

Two separate teams of the ED searched Deshmukh`s house in Katol town, located about 60 km from here, and his ancestral home at Wadvihira village near Katol, he said. The searches started at around 6 am, he said.