Lagatar24 Desk
Kolkata, July 23: The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday detained West Bengal Minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee in connection with a money laundering investigation involving the state’s alleged teacher recruitment scam.
#WATCH | Enforcement Directorate (ED) team arrests former West Bengal Education Minister, Partha Chatterjee from his residence in Kolkata. The team had been here since yesterday in connection with the SSC recruitment scam. pic.twitter.com/iGkfQNlF0X
— ANI (@ANI) July 23, 2022
The arrest occurs one day after a close aide to the minister was found with Rs 20 crore.
Partha Chatterjee is currently the minister of industry and commerce. When the alleged scam was carried out, he held the portfolio for education.
In accordance with a high court order, the CBI had been investigating alleged anomalies in the recruitment of Group-C and Group-D staff and teachers in government-sponsored and -aided institutions, while the ED was following the money trail in the fraud.
