By PTI
KOLKATA: Suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee’s shut aide Arpita Mukherjee, who has additionally been held by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to its probe into a faculty recruitment rip-off, stated on Tuesday that crores of rupees recovered from by the company was slipped into her residences with out her information.
ED sleuths have recovered round Rs 50 crore in money, together with jewelry, from her two flats in south-west Kolkata and Belghoria. Both Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been taken to ESI Joka, on the southern outskirts of town, for medical check-up, in the course of the day.
Mukerjee, after deboarding a car, advised ready reporters, “Money was kept in my residences without my knowledge”, sparking hypothesis as to who was she pointing fingers at.
Earlier, Chatterjee, who has been relieved of his ministerial duties, had stated that he was a “victim of a conspiracy” and expressed displeasure over the TM’s resolution to droop him.
The veteran chief had additionally stated that solely time would inform if the motion in opposition to him was justified. Both Chatterjee and Mukherjee have stated that the cash recovered didn’t belong to them.
They can be produced earlier than PMLA courtroom on Wednesday, with the 10-day ED custody of the duo coming to an finish.
KOLKATA: Suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee’s shut aide Arpita Mukherjee, who has additionally been held by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to its probe into a faculty recruitment rip-off, stated on Tuesday that crores of rupees recovered from by the company was slipped into her residences with out her information.
ED sleuths have recovered round Rs 50 crore in money, together with jewelry, from her two flats in south-west Kolkata and Belghoria. Both Chatterjee and Mukherjee have been taken to ESI Joka, on the southern outskirts of town, for medical check-up, in the course of the day.
Mukerjee, after deboarding a car, advised ready reporters, “Money was kept in my residences without my knowledge”, sparking hypothesis as to who was she pointing fingers at.
Earlier, Chatterjee, who has been relieved of his ministerial duties, had stated that he was a “victim of a conspiracy” and expressed displeasure over the TM’s resolution to droop him.
The veteran chief had additionally stated that solely time would inform if the motion in opposition to him was justified. Both Chatterjee and Mukherjee have stated that the cash recovered didn’t belong to them.
They can be produced earlier than PMLA courtroom on Wednesday, with the 10-day ED custody of the duo coming to an finish.
