Arpita Mukherjee, the aide of Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee, owns several flats for which sale deed has been found by ED. The agency has arrested Ms Mukherjee in connection with a school jobs scam.
The 30-year-old model, actor and popular Instagrammer owns at least three flats, said ED officials. So far, the agency has recovered ₹ 50 crore in cash from two homes of Ms Mukherjee.
According to ED officials, Ms Mukherjee owns two flats in Clubtown Heights, in Belgharia area of Kolkata. In the raid conducted at one of these flats on Thursday morning, ED seized nearly ₹ 30 crore cash and five kilograms of gold ornaments. No recovery was made from the second flat, said the officials of the agency.
On Friday, the probe agency officials had recovered ₹ 21 crore in cash, gold bars worth ₹ 2 crore and a huge amount of foreign exchange from another flat owned by Ms Mukherjee in the Diamond City condo in Kolkata’s Tollygunge.
Besides cash and gold, the probe agency also recovered a number of incriminating documents and records from various premises of the individuals involved in the scam.
Arpita Mukherjee was active in the Bengali and Odia film industries between 2008 and 2014. She comes from a middle-class family in Belghoria in the northern suburbs of Kolkata and was into modelling since her college days.