Kolkata: About Rs 29 crore in cash and five kilograms of gold jewellery were recovered from the second flat of Arpita Mukherjee in Kolkata, a close aide of arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, during a raid conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that went on for 18 hours, officials said.
The probe agency officials left Arpita Mukherjee’s home in the Belgharia area of Kolkata early this morning with 10 trunks of cash.
The ED officials used three note-counting machines to know the exact amount of cash seized from Ms Mukherjee’s second flat, sources said.
This comes days after the probe agency had recovered about Rs 20 crore from Ms Mukherjee’s other flat in the city. The officials have also recovered crucial documents from both her flats that are being examined.
The raids were carried out as part of the ED’s investigation into a money laundering case linked to the teacher recruitment scam in the state. So far, Rs 50 crore in cash has been recovered from the two flats of Ms Mukherjee.
