ED has found another Rs 28 crore in cash, over 5 kg gold and several documents at the second apartment of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee.
Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, Thursday told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that the money recovered from her second flat belongs to Chatterjee.
Her statement comes on the day the probe agency recovered another Rs 28 crore in cash and over 5 kg of gold from her second apartment, days after recovering Rs 21 crore from her first flat. Officials, who took 10 hours to count the money, said a huge amount of money was recovered from the toilet.
ED sources said, “Arpita has confessed that the recovered amount belongs to Partha Chatterjee and her flat was used to keep his money.” She also said she had no idea that such a huge amount was there in that flat and added that Partha used to visit the flat and he only knew about it.
The ED also said that earlier Arpita did not inform that her second flat also had cash. “But when we raided the apartment after getting the property details, we found cash in crores and gold worth 5 kg.”
The recovered Rs 27.9 crore includes notes of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 denominations, neatly packed in bundles of 50 lakh each for Rs 2,000 notes and Rs 20 lakh each for Rs 500 notes. Also, gold and jewellery worth Rs 4.31 crore include 3 gold bricks of 1 kg each, 6 Kangan (bangles) of 500 grams each, and a gold pen.
