Rs 28 crore cash, 6 kg of gold recovered from Partha Chatterjee’s aide Arpita Mukherjee’s house

Thursday, 28 July 2022newsdesk

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Wednesday seized Rs 27.90 crore cash and about 6 kg of gold from a second flat of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee who has been arrested by the probe agency over his alleged involvement in a school jobs scam.

New Delhi, 28 July 2022

“Bundles of cash were recovered from a shelf while inspecting Arpita’s flat located in Belgharia Town Club in Kolkata. It took several hours to count the notes with the help of bank officials and counting machines,” an ED official said. As per news report of The Indian Express, the counting went on till about 5.30 am on Thursday. The seizure includes cash worth Rs 27.9 crore (Rs 2,000 notes packed into bundles of Rs 50 lakh each, and Rs 500 notes packed into bundles of Rs 20 lakh each), gold and jewellery worth Rs 4.31 crore (3 gold bricks of 1 kg each, 6 Bangles of 500 gram each among other jewellery and one gold pen).

Source - The Indian Express