Bengal: ED attaches Rs 163 cr worth assets in WBSSC recruitment 'scam' case
Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said it has attached assets worth more than Rs 163 crore of the alleged «main middleman» and his linked entities in fresh action in a «scam» in the recruitment of group C and D category staff by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC). The federal agency earlier attached properties worth Rs 230.6 crore in connection with the alleged irregularities in the hiring of assistant teachers and Rs 151 crore worth of assets in the primary teachers recruitment «scam» in West Bengal. Both recruitments were done by the WBSSC.
The federal agency said in a statement that five hotels and resorts, 230 land parcels and 17 flats and shops of Prasanna Kumar Roy, the «main middleman» in these cases, his wife Kajal Soni Roy and a company, controlled and operated by Roy, named Shree Durga Dealcom Pvt. Ltd. have been provisionally attached under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The value of the attached properties is Rs 163.20 crore, it said.
The attached assets include Chalankita Resort situated at Shyampur in Howrah, Royal Bengal Resort at Sunderbans, Hotel Mili (Rubina) in Digha, Hotel Murti at Jalpaiguri and Bamboo Village Resort in Alipurduar.
The money laundering probe stems from a CBI FIR and charge sheets registered for the alleged «illegal appointment of Group 'C' and 'D' employees by offering appointment to the undeserving, non-listed and below-ranked candidates and consequently depriving the deserving and genuine candidates.»
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