Kolkata, September 18 (IANS) West Bengal Minister Chandranath Sinha’s fate will host his clarification about the alleged fictional financial transactions of Rs 12.73 crore identified by the Enforcement Directorate (E) in relation to the state’s primary teacher recruitment irregularities.
The case is scheduled for a significant hearing in a special prevention of the Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Kolkata this Saturday.
Sinha is expected to present about disputed transactions in bank accounts individually or jointly organized with his family members to present the first to the Enforcement Directorate, through his lawyer.
Sources aware of the development said that, based on the explanation provided by Sinha through its lawyer in the Special Court at the end of this week, the Enforcement Directorate is likely to seek the minister’s custody for questioning.
He said that the investigating officers are mainly demanding two clarifications from the minister about fictional transactions, the first is the source of money behind a series of in -in -arrivals, mostly in cash, designed for these bank accounts during a specified period.
Sources said that ED officials are seeking two clarifications from the minister about fictional transactions.
The first explanation belongs to the source of funds behind a series of phased arrivals, in large -scale cash, bank accounts are credited during a particular period.
The second minister and his family members are concerned about these transactions defaults with the tax announcements.
The ED has already told the Special Court that, during interrogation, the ministers failed to provide satisfactory answers at any point.
ED officials have detected illegal transactions worth Rs 12.73 crore, allegedly associated with irregularities in the recruitment of primary teachers in the state, in bank accounts organized by minister and his family members.
The details of these imaginary transactions were included in the sixth supplementary charge sheet of ED filed in the Special Court earlier this month.
On 6 September, Sinha surrendered before the same court regarding the agency’s investigation into the alleged recruitment scam. The court granted him interim bail on a personal bond of Rs 10,000 with certain conditions.
In its charge sheet, the ED highlighted a series of large cash deposits made in a joint bank account organized by a minister and his wife, Kuntala Sinha at a public sector bank’s Kolkata branch.
According to the sixth supplement charge sheet, a total of Rs 1.18 crore cash was deposited in this account between January 2016 and November 2019, which was identified as the extreme period of the alleged school recruitment scam.
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