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Arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Shahjahan used multiple shell companies to divert profits from fisheries that he and his men were running at Sandeshkhali in West Bengals North 24 Parganas district by grabbing farmland owned by local farmers, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) claimed before a Kolkata court on Monday.I). The ED and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had earlier said that they had found extensive use of shell company accounts in the bribe-for-job scam in the state school department, the public distribution system (PDS) case and the cattle and coal smuggling cases..
Several TMC ministers and leaders are suspects in these cases..
While seeking his custody for questioning, EDs lawyers told the court that the federal agency has already traced more than 31 crore that Shahjahan allegedly diverted from the fishery business..
. Shahjahan stayed in hiding for 55 days following the January 5 attack on ED officials, who raided his home in connection with the alleged PDS scam in which former food minister Jyotipriya Mullick was arrested last year..
Rekha Patra, one of the women who led an uprising against local TMC leaders in February, has been fielded by the BJP from Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency of which Sandeshkhali assembly segment is a part..
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