Partha Chatterjee had booked two new luxury cars for aide Arpita before arrest
India Today
In their search for Arpita Mukherjee’s missing high-end cars, ED officials have found that Partha Chatterjee allegedly booked two more vehicles for her and made advance payments for them.
Enforcement Directorate officials have learnt that sacked Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee used to take his close associate Arpita Mukherjee on joyrides in the high-end cars that are now missing from the parking lot of the latter’s south Kolkata flat, a PTI report said.
"There were two cars — a Mercedes and a Mini Cooper — belonging to Mukherjee. These vehicles were used by the minister and his aide Mukherjee for joyrides. Inside these two vehicles, she used to have parties," an ED official told PTI.
According to the report, one of these cars was gifted to Arpita Mukherjee by Chatterjee. It is also believed that the TMC leader helped her in buying the other vehicles as well.
ED sleuths have also found that Chatterjee allegedly booked two more luxury vehicles for Arpita and made advance payments for them. These transactions were conducted through two shell companies, an agency official alleged.
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"These two vehicles were booked for two shell companies and advance payments have been made. But before they were delivered, the duo was arrested," he said.
The ED is searching for the four luxury and mid-range cars that vanished from Arpita Mukherjee's residence in Kolkata's Diamond City complex shortly after her arrest in the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam.
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