Insurance receipts to Arpita with Partha as nominee, finds ED 

KOLKATA:  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has found 31 certificates issued by an insurance company in the name of Arpita Mukherjee, with former minister Partha Chatterjee being the nominee in all the documents, according to sources.

The ED has described the insurance documents as clinching evidence to prove that the proceeds of the crime of the alleged scam in recruitment were invested in the name of Arpita with clear involvement of Chatterjee. “The insurance documents are clear evidence that will prove that Chatterjee parked the proceeds of the crime through Arpita. The model and actor has been cooperating with us during interrogation. However, Chatterjee isn’t. He is ducking most of the questions claiming his innocence or he has no knowledge or he cannot recall,” according to an ED official.

The documents that the central agency has come across during investigation showed Chatterjee and Arpita were in touch since 2012. “Many properties were purchased in the name of both Chatterjee and Arpita, but later registered in the name of the woman only,” said the official.

Citing an example, the official said a piece of land was purchased in Santiniketan in the name of the former Trinamool Congress minister and his close aide in 2012. “But the last mutation records of the property show it was in the name of Arpita only. The ED carried out a search operation in the Santiniketan property on Wednesday.” 

Meanwhile, on Thursday, the Central agency sleuths raided an apartment in Panditia Road in Kolkata. Chatterjee and Arpita were arrested on July 23 after a marathon interrogation and recovery of cash Rs 21.9 crore, gold and diamond jewellery and foreign currencies from her apartment in connection with the alleged recruitment scam. The ED carried out search at her second apartment and found cash Rs 27.9 crore along with jewellery. Both Chatterjee and Arpita will be produced in court on Friday.

Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee who is in New Delhi and is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday is unlikely to address the media following the developments in the ED investigation.

Insurance documents clinching evidence: ED
The ED has described the insurance documents as clinching evidence to prove that the proceeds of the crime of the alleged scam in recruitment were invested in the name of Arpita Mukherjee with clear involvement of Partha Chatterjee