Lagatar24 Desk
Kolkata, Sept 20: The Enforcement Directorate announced it has attached assets worth over 100 crore allegedly linked to former Trinamool Congress Minister Partha Chatterjee and his associate Arpita Mukherjee as part of a money laundering investigation into the teachers’ recruitment scam.
Mukherjee, Chatterjee, and six entities are implicated in the case’s initial chargesheet, which the federal agency filed on Monday.
Meritorious candidates in the state were allegedly left out of the scheme, and in their place, non-deserving candidates were hired for pay in a number of schools all around the state.
The ED stated that the attached properties were discovered to be beneficially owned by Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee. The attached properties included 40 immovable assets, such as a farmhouse, flats, and prime land, located in Kolkata, worth a combined total of 40.33 crore. The attached properties also included 7.89 crore worth of deposits held in 35 bank accounts.
“The ED had earlier seized cash amounting to a total of Rs 49.80 Crore and gold and jewellery valued at more than Rs 5.08 Crore from two premises during the searches conducted on 22.07.2022 and 27/28.07.2022. With the present attachment, total attachment/ seizure in the case stands at Rs 103.10 Crore,” the agency added.
Notably, the ED arrested Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee on July 23 after carrying out search operations at various premises linked to them across the state.
