ED officials seize crores from Partha Chatterjee’s associate
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Enforcement Directorate sources claim it has seized cash after raids on Arpita Mukherjee's premises
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| A picture of the seized cash that the ED tweeted on Friday evening.: The Telegraph |
TT Bureau | Calcutta | 23.07.22 : Enforcement Directorate officials searched the premises of several persons, including senior Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, in a case dealing with school staff recruitment during his earlier stint as state education minister.
The ED tweeted a picture of a heap of currency notes, said to amount to Rs 20 crore. ED sources claimed the money was seized from Arpita Mukherjee, whom they identified as a close associate of the minister.
ED is carrying out search operations at various premises linked to recruitment scam in the West Bengal School Service Commission and West Bengal Primary Education Board. pic.twitter.com/i4dP2SAeGG
— ED (@dir_ed) July 22, 2022
Chatterjee, now the state commerce and industries minister, was being questioned at his home well past 1am on Saturday.
The premises of 11 searched include that of Paresh Adhikary, minister of state for education; Manik Bhattacharya, MLA and former president of the Bengal board of primary education; Kalyanmay Bhattacharya, who runs a school; Krishna C. Adhikary, a relative of Kalyanmay, and S.P. Sinha, former chief adviser to the School Service Commission.
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