Agency’s chargesheet shows Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee have assets worth over Rs 100 crore.
NEW DELHI”: The chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), investigating the SSC recruitment scam, in the Bankshal court in Kolkata earlier this week, shows that former TMC minister and heavyweight Partha Chatterjee and his close aide Arpita Mukherjee have moveable and immovable assets worth more than Rs 100 crore.
According to the ED chargesheet, more than Rs 54 crore of movable assets, including cash and jewellery, have been found linked to Partha Chatterjee, while Rs 40 crore of immovable assets were recovered by the ED during the investigation. At the time of filing the nomination in March 2021 West Bengal assembly election, Partha Chatterjee had declared that he had Rs 1.48 lakh cash in hand, a two-and-a-half-storey house worth Rs 25 lakh, mutual funds which he purchased with his provident fund and some policies. The minister’s sources of income are salary and interest from bank, said his last affidavit.
However, as per the 172-page chargesheet filed by the ED in the Kolkata court, a copy of which has been accessed by The Sunday Guardian, the ED found 40 properties linked to Partha Chatterjee. Most of these properties are in and around Kolkata and its adjoining districts of South 24 Parganas, Birbhum and Medinipur.
The ED in its chargesheet has said that all these properties that have been found by them during…