ED officials had to call bank officials and five cash counting machines after a huge amount of cash was found at Arpita’s Belghoria residence. Counting of votes is still on.
Over three kilograms of gold ornaments and silver coins were also found from the Club Town Heights flat.
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The ED had seized unaccounted gold ornaments and foreign currency worth Rs 21.9 crore besides Rs 76 lakh from him. tollygunge flat After which he was arrested.
Both Mukherjee and Chatterjee are in ED custody at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake following their arrest and raids on several properties in Kolkata began on Wednesday on the basis of the addresses mentioned in the property deeds, which the agency claims are from the residence of Partha Chatterjee. was confiscated.
On Wednesday, the ED raided Mukherjee’s Belghoria flat, an office on Rajdanga Main Road and Mukherjee’s ancestral house in Belghoria.
Sources said ED officials also raided the first floor flat of Chatterjee and a close associate of Mukherjee in Ballygunge Place East and called a locksmith to break into some lockers inside their flat.
CRPF at Arpita Mukherjee’s Belghoria flat.
“The officers came to our flat and raided the entire house and rummaged through the cupboards. They asked me if I knew of any money or valuables hidden here, which I told them about. I have no clue about anything in our house and opened the cupboards and rooms to look at them. They didn’t find anything here. I myself am shocked at the news of so much property and cash being recovered from my daughter,” Arpita said. Mukherjee’s mother said.
ED sources claimed that he was asked about the manner in which he jointly acquired the property with Chatterjee and the code entries in the diaries and notebooks recovered from his residence.
“We kept documents about his 11-year-long association with Chatterjee. While she has told us how she met him, we are yet to ascertain the origin of the huge amount of cash recovered from her flat,” said an ED source.
The agency counterattacked on 17 relevant documents seized from Chatterjee’s Nakatla residence. ED raid last Friday.
ED officials also produced several important evidences seized from Mukherjee’s Diamond City South apartment.
The documents cited included intimation letters to candidates, letters of recommendation from MLAs, bunch of documents related to transfer of candidates and admit cards of candidates, copies of documents related to revised TET result in 2012 and several works. Vehicles named after Mukherjee which were executed in 2015, 2017 and 2019.