In the first raid, the ED found Rs 21.90 crore in cash, Rs 56 lakh in foreign currency, and gold worth Rs 76 lakh. The total seizure stood at Rs 23.22 crore.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday seized another Rs 28.90 crore in cash, at least 5 kg gold, and several documents at the second apartment of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested Trinamool Congress leaderĀ Partha Chatterjee, days after the recovery of RS 21 crore from her first flat. It took ED Officials 10 hours to count the money, and a huge amount of money was recovered from the toilet.
Last week, ED officials found Rs 21 crore in cash from the house of Arpita Mukherjee. The federal probe agency had raided the residence of Arpita Mukherjee in connection with an alleged teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal. The recovered amount is suspected to be the proceeds of crime from the scam.
In the first raid, the ED found Rs 21.90 crore in cash, Rs 56 lakh in foreign currency, and gold worth Rs 76 lakh. The total seizure stood at Rs 23.22 crore.
In its second raid, the probe agency has recovered Rs 20 crore in cash so far – officials are still counting the cash, and gold bars worth Rs 2 crore.
Mukherjee later told the ED that the mountain of cash recovered from her flat belonged to Bengal Minister Partha Chatterje. The money was to be infused into companies linked to her, she told the ED.
During her questioning, Arpita divulged that the plan was to move the piles of cash out of her house in a day or two. But the agency raids foiled the plan, she said.
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