Kolkata 1st of September : What was hearsay claims in the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities is now recognized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an official letter to a court of special ED in Kolkata.The first aspect of submitted in the form of a written report is the massive amount of cash retrieved from the two homes of the former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee’s close assistant Arpita Mukherjee in July of this year were actually the result of the teacher recruitment irregularities fraud.
About 50 crore in cash together with massive amounts of gold were retrieved from the two homes.
The second part of argument is in addition to Partha Chatterjee as well as Arpita Mukherjee there were other influential political figures were also involved in the fraud.
To support the first part of submission the ED has provided the details of various leaders, MLAs of the ruling Trinamool Congress and even some state ministers who have submitted recommendations to unqualified candidates in their own letterheads.
In the written argument in its written submission, the ED has also informed the court that, when investigators conducted a search at Partha Chatterjee’s house in July, they found several of documents that were incriminating including the recommendation letters.
Both -both – Partha Chatterjee as well as Arpita Mukherjee are in the custody of the court and will remain in the custody until September 14 at which point they will be brought before to the court for a second time.Sources have said that during this period, ED investigators will ask Chatterjee about these letters of recommendation.
In the meantime the ED investigators are also working to investigate the employees and directors of the fake companies which they believe, were employed to channel the profits of the teacher recruitment irregularities scam through various avenues.
The ED officials have discovered that certain directors in certain firms were appointed for a meager monthly salaries of the range of Rs 10,000 to 15,000 and they mostly came from the lower middle class.”Actually selecting directors like this was merely an excuse to make a statement,” an ED official said.
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