KOLKATA: Following the raid and search operations, the Enforcement Directorate (ED), probing the multi-crore recruitment rip-off for educating and non-teaching workers within the state-run colleges in West Bengal, has recovered as many as 350 optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets from the residence of a non-public actual property promoter at Salt Lake within the northern outskirts of Kolkata.
The raid and search operations that began since Saturday and are persevering with until the time the report was filed. The actual property promoter from whose residence the OMR sheets have been recovered is Ayan Shil, an especially shut confidante of expelled youth Trinamool Congress chief, Santanu Bandopadhyay, who’s at present in ED custody due to his alleged involvement within the multi-crore recruitment rip-off.
“The question is how could the OMR sheets, which are supposed to be in the safe custody of West Bengal School Service Commission, be dumped at a private property. The 350 OMR sheets recovered are of different years. Besides, the OMR sheets, a list of probable candidates to be shortlisted for the selection, were also recovered from Shil`s residence,” stated an ED affiliate.
Apart from these recruitment-related paperwork, the investigating sleuths have gotten paperwork of some property which might be jointly- owned by Bandopadhyay and Shil. The ED officers doubt {that a} main a part of the rip-off proceeds collected by Bandopadhyay was invested in the actual property enterprise owned by Shil.
Already, the ED counsel has knowledgeable a particular courtroom of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Kolkata {that a} main a part of the crime proceeds collected by different expelled and arrested youth Trinamool Congress chief Kuntal Ghosh has been invested within the enterprise of movie financing.
The ED counsel has additionally claimed that on this depend Ghosh additionally gave advance to a variety of Tollywood actors and actresses. Now with Shil’s involvement, the connection of the actual property sector within the rip-off has additionally surfaced.
