As the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC) probe continues, Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide to Trinamool Congress senior leader Partha Chatterjee, has made stunning assertions about the situation.
Arpita Mukherjee, during the interrogation conducted by Enforcement Directorate (ED), said that all money seized from her house is of West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee’s, ED sources claimed.
She said that money was delivered by Partha's aide or, on occasion, by Partha himself. She, too, stated that she was not permitted to access the chamber where the money was stored.
Earlier today, another Rs 29 crore in cash was seized from Arpita Mukherjee's Belghoria residence in North 24-Parganas, West Bengal. According to ANI, the total cash collected from her premises currently stands at over 49 crore.
The ED raided Arpita Mukherjee's Belghoria residence for 18 hours on Wednesday, until this morning.
After questioning her, two flats in Belghoria were raided earlier on Wednesday. Money and gold worth around 20 crore were discovered in one. According to reports, Arpita Mukherjee stated that Partha Chatterjee exploited her home as a "little bank."
Mukherjee is a close aide of Trinamool Congress lawmaker and Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who was detained by ED in the multi-crore money laundering case.
According to ED authorities, Mukherjee has been "cooperative throughout the probe," but the former Bengal education minister has been "uncooperative."
The investigating agency also discovered two journals from Mukherjee's house and stated that coded entries in a black executive diary and one pocket diary might provide vital clues to the WBSSC money trail.
Both journals contain multiple coded entries that they think relate to the origins of the earnings from the multi-billion dollar West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities scheme.
In conjunction with its inquiry, the ED detained Chatterjee, who is also the TMC secretary general, on Saturday.