He was allegedly making money off recruitment for state-run schools.
Partha Chatterjee, who was education minister in the eastern state for more than five years, was accused of appointing hundreds of teachers and non-teaching staff for money and other forms of bribes, putting them in positions they were not qualified for or had they paid acquire, said an official of the Enforcement Directorate .
"The minister has been charged under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act," an ED official said.The directorate said in a statement it had seized about 200 million rupees in cash from the house of an actor and model, a close associate of Chatterjee, finding incriminating documents, details of dubious companies, electronic devices, foreign currency and gold from the premises of other government officials linked to the alleged scam.
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