Kolkata, Sep 19 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate on Monday filed its first cost sheet towards former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged affiliate Arpita Mukherjee within the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam-linked cash laundering case, saying belongings value greater than Rs 100 crore have been seized.
The company additionally mentioned it has issued a provisional attachment order for seizing immovable belongings and financial institution balances to the tune of Rs 48.22 crore, which it claimed had been “beneficially owned” by the 2.
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The cost sheet was filed earlier than a particular courtroom in Kolkata, beneath varied sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), on the 58th day of the arrest of the 2.
Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been arrested by the federal company on July 23 after raids had been carried out towards them in reference to its probe into the cash path within the faculty recruitment rip-off.
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The 172-page cost sheet was filed earlier than the PMLA courtroom on the Bankshall Court right here towards eight entities – Chatterjee, Mukherjee and 6 different corporations that had been allegedly discovered to have been floated in reference to the case, ED counsel Abhijit Bhadra mentioned.
According to the cost sheet, there are 43 witnesses within the case.
The paperwork connected with the cost sheet run into as many as 146,043 pages, Bhadra acknowledged.
The ED earlier had seized Rs 49.80 crore in money other than jewelry and gold bars value Rs 5.08 core after raids at flats owned by Chatterjee’s alleged shut aide Arpita Mukherjee.
As a part of the attachment order about which the ED knowledgeable on Monday, it mentioned 40 immovable belongings akin to a farmhouse, flats and “prime land” situated in Kolkata value a complete of Rs 40.33 crore, other than Rs 7.89 crore value in deposits saved in 35 financial institution accounts had been seized.
According to the company, a number of of the connected properties had been registered within the identify of shell corporations and folks appearing as “proxies” for Chatterjee.
The whole worth of the seized or connected belongings on this case stands at Rs 103.10 crore, it mentioned
The courtroom allowed ED’s prayer for additional investigation in addition to its plea to file a supplementary cost sheet at a later stage.
Claiming that the previous minister is harmless, his counsel had earlier instructed the courtroom that “nothing” was recovered from Chatterjee.
The ED has alleged that Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been discovered to be concerned within the fee of the offence of cash laundering by indulging in a prison conspiracy to present jobs to ineligible candidates.
The names of those candidates had been allegedly advisable by the SSC to the West Bengal Board of School Education.
It has additionally been acknowledged by the company that Mukherjee’s shut affiliation with members of the family of Chatterjee has been present in an organization registered at an tackle owned by the previous at Belghoria, on the northern outskirts of Kolkata, from the place Rs 27.90 crore in money was additionally seized.
In one other firm, APA Utility Services, the 2 accused had been discovered to have equal 50 – 50 shareholdings. The company counsel mentioned that 31 LIC insurance insurance policies of Mukherjee, during which the previous minister is a nominee, have additionally been seized.
Chatterjee was relieved of his ministerial duties by the Mamata Banerjee authorities shortly after his arrest whereas the TMC, too, eliminated him from the posts he held within the celebration, together with that of the secretary normal. He held the training portfolio when the rip-off was allegedly pulled off.
He is at current within the custody of the CBI for questioning in reference to the rip-off whereas Mukherjee is lodged in jail.
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