Earlier, a team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was attacked during a raid in North 24 Parganas district. The incident occurred in the village belonging to TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh.
The raids are being conducted at the premises of three prominent leaders of the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. The alleged irregularities in municipality recruitments came to the fore when the investigative agency arrested Kolkata-based builder Ayan Sheel on March 19, 2023.
Bengal Municipalities' recruitment scam: ED's raids on premises linked to TMC minister Rathin Ghosh are likely to intensify the political slugfest between the TMC and the BJP. Mamata Banerjee-led TMC keeps accusing the BJP of misusing Central probe agencies against its leaders.
The former minister in the TMC-led government in West Bengal and his "close associate" were arrested by the ED in July.
The Calcutta High Court in August directed the ED to question Gambhir at its regional office in Kolkata and not in Delhi and also not to take coercive steps against her till the next date of hearing.
Some of the bank accounts of Partha Chatterjee's close relatives and associates are also under the ED scanner.
Bengal school jobs scam: The Trinamool Congress leadership is under immense pressure from within the party to relieve Partha Chatterjee of his ministerial and party posts with immediate effect.
Bengal school jobs scam: According to ED sources, Mukherjee also admitted that the cash recovered from her residences was parked there by Chatterjee with the help of one of his close associates unknown to her.
Bengal school jobs scam: The comment came amid the opposition BJP and CPI(M)'s attack on the TMC for not taking any action against Chatterjee even as huge amounts of cash were recovered from properties linked to him.
Chatterjee, currently industries and commerce minister, held the education portfolio when the scam was allegedly pulled off. He was interrogated by the CBI twice, once on April 26 and then on May18.
The money laundering case stems from a CBI FIR against the Rashmi group of companies. These include Rashmi Cement Ltd and Rashmi Metalik Ltd.
ED raids at 10 places in Kolkata on fake corona vaccination. The main accused in the fake corona vaccination case is Debanjan Deb.
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