KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate, which has filed a lengthy chargesheet in connection with the West Bengal teachers’ recruitment scam, has claimed that former state minister and TMC leader Partha Chatterjee took hi close aide Arpita Mukherjee on several foreign trips and purchased properties in Thailand.
The central financial probe agency is reported to have made these allegations in its 172-page chargesheet in connection with the SSC Scam that has revealed a host of explosive information about the expelled TMC leader.
In the chargesheet, the ED claimed that the duo amassed huge property in Thailand. The central agency stated that Partha Chatterjee and his relatives purchased land in Thailand.
Through the documents seized from Partha and Arpita Mukherjee’s residences, the ED is of the view that the two may have visited Thailand several times. The agency also suspects that Partha made multiple investments in Thailand’s real estate market through a company named Apa Utility Service which is jointly owned by Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee.
On Wednesday, a special CBI court rejected the bail prayer of Partha Chatterjee and remanded him and three others to judicial custody till October 5 in connection with its probe in the SSC recruitment scam.
The three others sent to judicial custody till the same date are former West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) president Kalyanmoy Ganguly, who was arrested by CBI on September 15, former…
