The Enforcement Department (ED) have seized around ₹28 crore, around five kilos of gold and property deeds from a flat which belongs to Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, on Wednesday.
The federal agency had arrested both the minister and his aide on July 23 in connection with a multi-crore recruitment scam in government schools in West Bengal. They are now in ED custody.
Last week the ED had seized Rs 21.9 crore, gold and US Dollars from Mukherjee’s flat in south Kolkata. Several documents were also seized from the minister’s house.