West Bengal: Rs 8 crore in 11 bank accounts of Partha Chatterjee, Arpita Mukherjee on Enforcement Directorate radar

KOLKATA: After the cash seizures, around 11 bank accounts — three belonging to Partha Chatterjee and eight to Arpita Mukherjee — have now come under the Enforcement Directorate’s scanner. Around Rs 8 crore is parked in these accounts, Rs 2.5 crore of which has already been put under debit freeze.

ED sources said Chatterjee has five accounts with two nationalised banks and a private sector bank. According to his 2021 Election Commission affidavit, he has nearly Rs 60 lakh in his accounts.

Agency sources said two sets of documents have led them to suspect that Chatterjee was in “close contact” with Arpita for more than a decade. Officials have found several insurance policies that Chatterjee bought with Mukherjee as the nominee or beneficiary. Another set of documents pertains to a purported house procurement in Bolpur in January 2012.

“We are ascertaining the authenticity of the documents. It must be examined first before any claim,” Mukherjee’s lawyer Niladri Bhattacharya said.