Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided and searched five locations in and around the city on Tuesday to probe the allegations of money laundering of ₹160 crores of funds from Trinamul Congress bank accounts, now under freeze, to a private aviation company’s bank account in the last three years.
The five addresses were at CR Avenue in central Kolkata, Rajarhat-New Town and adjacent areas. It included the office and residence of a businessman who owns Carewell Aviation, a private company that runs chartered jet business. He is also close to Diamond Harbour TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee who recently faced criticism from two camps within his party for his habit of traveling in chartered flights.
According to ED sources, around Rs 160 crores of funds were transferred from TMC bank accounts to that of Carewell Aviation and another entity between April 2023 and June 2026. They also claimed that the private company then routed nearly Rs 82.96 crores to another newly incorporated related entity during the same period, triggering a suspicion of layered financial transactions.
The ED further found that a major chunk of the funds was diverted to a related entity to buy an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet and an Agusta 109 SP chopper at the cost of nearly Rs 112 crores for their lease to TMC on rent.
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