The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday recovered a huge amount of cash amounting to approximately Rs 20 crore from the residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee, a close associate of Trinamool Congress secretary general and industry minister Partha Chatterjee in connection with the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) teacher’s recruitment scam.
A total of 13 teams of the ED with 90 officials have conducted parallel raids in 14 places in different parts of the state, starting Friday early morning.
The ED has recovered huge cash amounting to approximately Rs 20 crore from the residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee, who is a close associate of Partha Chatterjee. The said amount is suspected to be proceeds of crime of said SSC scam. The search team is taking the assistance of bank officials for the counting of cash through cash counting machines.
A total of more than 20 mobile phones have also been recovered from the premises of Arpita Mukherjee, the purpose and use of which is being ascertained. A number of other incriminating documents, records, details of dubious companies, electronic devices, foreign currency and gold has also been recovered from the various premises of the persons linked to the scam” read the ED statement.
Mukherjee is a resident of South 24 Parganas district. ED is investigating cases under Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA).
