The Enforcement Directorate submitted a 7,000-page supplementary chargesheet against Sujay Krishna Bhadra on Friday before the Special (CBI)-I Court.
Bhadra was charged under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in connection with the irregularities in recruitment of teachers and staff in government-aided schools in Bengal.
The chargesheet says Bhadra had colluded with Manik Bhattacharya, former president of the West Bengal Primary Education Board and Trinamul Congress MLA from Nadia. Bhadra, it says, helped Bhattacharya get a Trinamul Congress ticket for contesting the Assembly elections.
“That Sujay Krishna Bhadra had also admitted in his statement under Section 50 of PMLA that a lot of candidates used to approach him for getting their works done as he used to sit at the TMC Kalighat office…. It is also pertinent to mention that accused Sujay Krishna Bhadra had also helped Manik Bhattacharya in getting the TMC ticket for the Assembly elections by forwarding his recommendation. Thus, it is clear that there was a quid pro quo relationship between the two,” the chargesheet says.
Bhattacharya, who had been arrested by the ED for alleged money laundering, has already been chargesheeted by the agency in that case.
The chargesheet says two of Bhadra’s companies were part of his alleged money laundering scheme.
“An amount of Rs 10.20 crore was infused through issuance of the shares at a huge premium in the books of accounts of M/s Wealth Wizards Private during the period2011-12 and 2012-13 and siphoning the same to other companies and purchasing immovable properties….More than 94 lakhs of cash were deposited in the account of M/s. Wealth Wizards Private Limited during period from 2018 to 2023,” the chargesheet says.
Bhadra is admitted to SSKM Hospital with heart ailments.
