Enforcement Directorate has attached assets worth Rs 48.22 crore "beneficially owned" by former TMC minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee.
Prasanna Roy, Partha Chatterjee's relative, owns hotels not only in Dubai but also in Darjeeling, Uttarakhand, and Puri.CBI discovered several bighas of land in his name in North Bengal.
Arpita has claimed innocence before ED, saying that the cash seized from her houses did not belong to her and Partha had used her residences as 'banks'.
Ex-TMC leader and former WBCUPA general Secretary Baisakhi Banerjee revealed that apart from Arpita Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee was also in a relationship with Monalisa Das
Another official of the central agency informed that Partha Chatterjee has confessed to the involvement of other Departments in providing jobs via fraudulent means to ineligible candidates.