The Enforcement Directorate, which is probing alleged money laundering in multi-crore cattle and coal smuggling cases, arrested Vikash Mishra, brother of Trinamul Youth Congress leader Vinay Mishra, from New Delhi on Tuesday.

He was produced in a Delhi court that remanded him in the ED’s custody for six days.

Two central investigating agencies —CBI and the ED — have been looking for Vikash for some time in connection with their probe into the alleged multi-crore cattle smuggling and coal pilferage cases spanning several states, including Bengal.

Sources said Vikash had been camping in the capital to oversee pending cases against his brother in the Supreme Court.

“Vikash has been instrumental in distributing crores of rupees to some of the beneficiaries of both cattle smuggling and coal pilferage cases,” said a senior ED officer.

“He will be brought to Calcutta within a day or two for further questioning in custody,” the officer added.

In February, the CBI had named Vinay in its supplementary chargesheet in the cattle smuggling case and booked him under several sections of the Indian Penal Code, including criminal conspiracy and cheating.

Earlier in January, the agency had issued a “lookout notice” against Vinay after he had remained untraceable following a raid on three of his homes in Calcutta in December last year.

Vinay was not at any of his three residences — at Rakhal Das Auddy Road in Alipore and Rashbehari in Calcutta, and Patipukur in Lake Town — but pen drives, laptops and documents had been seized, a CBI officer said. The CBI has still not been able to reach him.