The recent raids in West Bengal over a school jobs scam involving Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee has shaken state politics and caught the attention of the entire nation. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), after the arrest of the duo, has continued to carry out raids and unearth how they swindled money and a lot more.

The duo are accused of playing a role in alleged illegal recruitments of teachers and staff in government-run schools when Chatterjee was the state education minister. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing the alleged irregularities in the scam, while the ED is tracking the money trail.

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With this, let’s take a look at all that was found on Chatterjee and his right-hand woman, actor-model Mukherjee.

Rs 29 crore in cash, gold bars

On Wednesday, the ED carried out a fresh raid at Mukherjee’s apartment complex in Kolkata’s Belgharia locality. News agency ANI reported that the officials left this morning with 10 trunks of cash. The operation continued for 18 long hours.

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About Rs 29 crore in cash, five kilograms of jewellery and gold bars have been recovered from Mukherjee’s flat, the second to be raided since 22 July, a day before her arrest.

As many as three note-counting machines were used by ED officials to count the mountains of money. Speaking to a news organisation, an ED official said, “We have recovered a huge amount of money from one of the flats in a housing complex… Besides cash, gold bars, jewellery and other documents have also been recovered.”

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The keys to the flat at ClubTown Heights were not to be found and the ED officers reportedly had to break into two other houses linked to Mukherjee. The searches were carried out after the minister’s aide provided information to the probe agency during the investigation following the arrests.

The first raid at Mukherjee’s residence

In an earlier raid, the ED officials recovered nearly Rs 21 crore in cash, all in Rs 500 and Rs 2000 denominations, American dollars worth Rs 50 lakh, and gold bars worth Rs 2 crore.

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A diary with 40 pages of notes, which has provided important leads in the investigation, was also recovered.

So far, Mukherjee’s two flats have been raided and Rs 50 crore has been found as part of the loot. Some crucial documents were also found and seized along with 20 mobile phones.