SSC rip-off: Money was stored with out my information, says Arpita as ED raids 5 extra locations

By Express News Service

KOLKATA: Speaking out first time in public on the problem of restoration of money Rs 49.8 crore from her two Apartments, Arpita Mukherjee, a detailed aide of suspended Trinamool Congress minister Partha Chatterjee, claimed on Tuesday that the cash was not her and it was stored in her absence and with out her information.

While being taken for medical examination two days in the past, Chatterjee, who was arrested in reference to alleged recruitment rip-off in faculties, stated he doesn’t have any cash.

Asked from the place the large quantity of money got here to her flats, Arpita, whereas being taken to ESI hospital, Joka, for medical examination with Chatterjee, stated, “The money was not mine. It was kept in my places when I was not present there. The money was brought there without my knowledge.”

Chatterjee, nevertheless, didn’t utter a phrase on Tuesday. The ED performed searches at 5 locations, which embody three flats in south Kolkata and two nail-art shops owned by Arpita.

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“The raids were conducted at Baranagar, Patuli, Panditiya Road and Lake Gardens. We came to know about these places while examining the documents recovered from the residences of Chatterjee and Arpita,” stated an ED official.

The central company didn’t interrogate Chatterjee and Arpita throughout their nine-day custody. “There were discrepancies in the statements given by both the accused. Both claimed that they don’t own the money. Arpita said she was not present when the currency notes were being kept in her apartments and she had no access to the rooms where it was kept. Chatterjee claimed that he has no idea about the money that we seized,” stated an official of the company.    

Chatterjee and Arpita will likely be produced in a particular prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket on Wednesday. “We will mention in our submission in the court about the recovery of cash from Arpita’s second apartment after interrogating her. We will seek the suspects’ further custody,” stated one other ED official.

Meanwhile, a homemaker, recognized herself as Subhra Ghorui, hurled her sandals on the car through which Chatterjee was being taken out after medical examination. The sneakers, nevertheless, didn’t hit Chatterjee.

“Had my sandals hit Chatterjee’s head, I would have been happy. He looted money from poor people. He deserves what I did,” stated Subhra, a mom of a daughter who additionally went to the identical hospital for medical check-up.

KOLKATA: Speaking out first time in public on the problem of restoration of money Rs 49.8 crore from her two Apartments, Arpita Mukherjee, a detailed aide of suspended Trinamool Congress minister Partha Chatterjee, claimed on Tuesday that the cash was not her and it was stored in her absence and with out her information.

While being taken for medical examination two days in the past, Chatterjee, who was arrested in reference to alleged recruitment rip-off in faculties, stated he doesn’t have any cash.

Asked from the place the large quantity of money got here to her flats, Arpita, whereas being taken to ESI hospital, Joka, for medical examination with Chatterjee, stated, “The money was not mine. It was kept in my places when I was not present there. The money was brought there without my knowledge.”

Chatterjee, nevertheless, didn’t utter a phrase on Tuesday. The ED performed searches at 5 locations, which embody three flats in south Kolkata and two nail-art shops owned by Arpita.

ALSO READ | SSC rip-off: Partha Chatterjee sticks to ‘conspiracy’ idea; aide Arpita washes off her arms

“The raids were conducted at Baranagar, Patuli, Panditiya Road and Lake Gardens. We came to know about these places while examining the documents recovered from the residences of Chatterjee and Arpita,” stated an ED official.

The central company didn’t interrogate Chatterjee and Arpita throughout their nine-day custody. “There were discrepancies in the statements given by both the accused. Both claimed that they don’t own the money. Arpita said she was not present when the currency notes were being kept in her apartments and she had no access to the rooms where it was kept. Chatterjee claimed that he has no idea about the money that we seized,” stated an official of the company.    

Chatterjee and Arpita will likely be produced in a particular prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket on Wednesday. “We will mention in our submission in the court about the recovery of cash from Arpita’s second apartment after interrogating her. We will seek the suspects’ further custody,” stated one other ED official.

Meanwhile, a homemaker, recognized herself as Subhra Ghorui, hurled her sandals on the car through which Chatterjee was being taken out after medical examination. The sneakers, nevertheless, didn’t hit Chatterjee.

“Had my sandals hit Chatterjee’s head, I would have been happy. He looted money from poor people. He deserves what I did,” stated Subhra, a mom of a daughter who additionally went to the identical hospital for medical check-up.