New Delhi:

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken major action after the interrogation of former Mamata cabinet minister Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee, surrounded by allegations of teacher recruitment scam.

ED has seized Rs 8 crore from the bank accounts of Arpita Mukherjee's companies.

Investigation revealed that huge amount of money was laundered in Arpita Mukherjee's companies. 

The money of companies was siphoned off through shell companies.

Not only this, according to sources, during interrogation, Arpita also told the names of some people who used to bring money to her Belghoria flat.

After getting the information, the ED team reached that flat on Saturday night and the CCTV footage was scanned to find out whether Arpita was telling the truth or not.

Let us tell you that earlier the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had initiated the process of blocking transactions from at least five bank accounts of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, in which at least Rs 2 crore has been given to the probe agency. had met.

A senior official of the agency gave this information on Saturday.

He had said that the bank accounts of several "fake companies" of Mukherjee are also under the scanner of the ED.

“The process of freezing five bank accounts of Mukherjee has started.

A total of about two crore rupees have been received in these accounts.

We suspect that these accounts were used to carry out multiple transactions and further investigation is on.”


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