More Rs 20 crores cash, 3 kg gold at home of Partha Chatterjee’s aide Arpita

Officials of the Enforcement Directorate have found over Rs 20 crore cash in the home of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, days after recovering Rs 21 crore cash. Officials have also found 3 kg of gold at the apartment.

Last week, ED officials found Rs 21 crore in cash from the house of Arpita Mukherjee. The 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 proceeds of crime of said SSC Scam.

Arpita Mukherjee later told the ED that the mountain of cash recovered from her home belonged to Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee. The money was to be infused in companies linked to her, she told the agency.

During her interrogation, 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.