Partha Chatterjee has been suspended by Trinamool and sacked as a state minister. (File)
Days after heaps of money and kilos of gold had been seized from his aide Arpita Mukherjee’s houses in Kolkata, sacked Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee immediately claimed the cash didn’t belong to him.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized round Rs 50 crore money from two houses belonging to Ms Mukherjee throughout raids in reference to alleged irregularities in recruitment of lecturers. Each Mr Chatterjee and Ms Mukherjee had been arrested earlier this month.
The previous minister, now suspended by his occasion, was surrounded by reporters immediately when he was dropped at a central government-run hospital in Kolkata for a check-up.
Responding to a query if anybody is conspiring towards him, the previous minister replied that they’ll get to know every part “when the time comes”.
“It isn’t my cash,” he replied to questions on the restoration of money constructed from Ms Mukherjee’s houses.
Apart from money, the ED officers additionally discovered an enormous quantity of overseas trade, gold, and information of varied premises of the people concerned within the rip-off.
Ms Mukherjee, it’s learnt, has advised investigators that the money mountains had been kickbacks obtained for transfers and for serving to schools get recognition.
The BJP has alleged that Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was additionally concerned within the alleged irregularities. The Trinamool, which had initially come out in Mr Chatterjee’s defence and accused the Centre of misusing probe businesses, later tweaked its stand and sacked Mr Chatterjee as minister.