Kuntal Ghosh, the general secretary of the Trinamul Youth Congress is believed to have given out the ED investigators several names as agents, who had allegedly raised money, made transactions and would contact the alleged aspirants all by themselves.
The investigators are of the opinion that this is a tactic to pass the buck to others to give a new twist to investigations. Earlier too, several names had surfaced of persons who had allegedly acted as conduits between Shanti Prasad Sinha, Partha Chatterjee, Kalyanmoy Bhattacharya for recommending names to get jobs through alleged manipulation. The list of names spelt out by Ghosh to ED officers, claimed a source, had many common names earlier revealed by Tapas Mondal to the agency officers. Based on this, the agency has begun preparing a list of such agents for further inquiry to get to the persons, who are likely real beneficiaries of the money channelized as proceeds of crime in the teachers’ recruitment scam.
But the investigators, however, are wary about Ghosh’s selective naming of persons and to parrot names of same persons like the former education minister Partha Chatterjee and Gopal Dalpati. While Chatterjee is in Presidency Jail, Dalpati, was in Tihar Jail in connection with his alleged complicity in a chit fund scam. But an ED source quoting the economic offence wing in Delhi claimed that Dalpati was bailed out of the jail a year back and now was found unavailable.
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