Jobs scam: Supreme Court frown on West Bengal bid to stall probe | India News – Times of India

Jobs scam: Supreme Court frown on West Bengal bid to stall probe | India News – Times of India

The ED on Friday tracked 10 bank accounts that may have been used by Sujay Krishna Bhadra alias ‘Kalighater Kaku’ in his role as a “banker” in the alleged West Bengal school recruitment scam, reports Rohit Khanna. ED sources hinted that some of these bank accounts belong to his associates, whose homes had been searched on May 20. Some of them may be summoned for questioning alongside Bhadra.
Sources in the agency claimed that Bhadra had, on the second day of interrogation on Thursday (June 1), admitted he used to control at least three companies — an allegation the accused had denied on May 30.
“The investigation conducted so far reveals that Bhadra is indirectly managing a number of companies and firms and a number of projects,” said ED lawyer Bhaskar Prasad Banerjee. ED officers, after questioning the accountants of some of these firms, think Bhadra got his way by introducing himself as the confidential assistant of a top Trinamool politician.
Sources claimed Bhadra had been investing in projects using what he claimed was his own income, the source of which is not clear. A Behala businessman, close to former education minister Partha Chatterjee, who lives near Bhadra’s Fakir Para house in Behala, is under ED scanner in this connection.
CBI, meanwhile, returned at least Rs 3 crore seized from Bhadra’s Behala residence. “Had it been proceeds of crime, ED would not have returned it,” said his lawyer. “If someone has multiple accounts, that does not prove his complicity in crime.”
The ED on Friday tracked 10 bank accounts that may have been used by Sujay Krishna Bhadra alias ‘Kalighater Kaku’ in his role as a “banker” in the alleged West Bengal school recruitment scam, reports Rohit Khanna. ED sources hinted that some of these bank accounts belong to his associates, whose homes had been searched on May 20. Some of them may be summoned for questioning alongside Bhadra.
Sources in the agency claimed that Bhadra had, on the second day of interrogation on Thursday (June 1), admitted he used to control at least three companies — an allegation the accused had denied on May 30.
“The investigation conducted so far reveals that Bhadra is indirectly managing a number of companies and firms and a number of projects,” said ED lawyer Bhaskar Prasad Banerjee. ED officers, after questioning the accountants of some of these firms, think Bhadra got his way by introducing himself as the confidential assistant of a top Trinamool politician.
Sources claimed Bhadra had been investing in projects using what he claimed was his own income, the source of which is not clear. A Behala businessman, close to former education minister Partha Chatterjee, who lives near Bhadra’s Fakir Para house in Behala, is under ED scanner in this connection.
CBI, meanwhile, returned at least Rs 3 crore seized from Bhadra’s Behala residence. “Had it been proceeds of crime, ED would not have returned it,” said his lawyer. “If someone has multiple accounts, that does not prove his complicity in crime.”

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