Overview
- The Enforcement Directorate filed PMLA chargesheets in early July that name former West Bengal minister Sujit Bose, his son Samudra Bose, IAS officer Jyotishman Chattopadhyay and two corporate firms in a municipal recruitment money‑laundering case and submitted a supplementary chargesheet against former Kolkata DCP Shantanu Sinha Biswas in a separate land‑grab probe.
- Investigators say the municipal scheme involved Bose recommending 340 candidates, of whom 284 received appointment letters, with alleged average payments of about Rs 6 lakh per candidate and roughly Rs 20 crore attributed to Bose in the chargesheet.
- The land‑grab supplementary chargesheet accuses Sinha Biswas, alleged land‑mafia figure Biswajit Poddar and real‑estate promoter Jay Kamdar of a roughly Rs 50 crore scheme and says Sinha Biswas personally benefited by about Rs 3 crore.
- ED built its cases from CBI seizure material and raids linked to a teacher‑recruitment probe, citing recommendation lists, bank records and WhatsApp chats as central evidence in both the municipal hiring and land transaction allegations.
- Bose and Sinha Biswas remain in judicial custody after earlier ED arrests in May, the Calcutta High Court refused to quash the ED ECIR against Bose, and the cases now move to contested PMLA proceedings that could widen scrutiny of political, bureaucratic and police links to patronage networks.