Enforcement Directorate

Investigators said more than 1,000 debit cards were circulated across India, with nearly Rs 100 crore withdrawn, including suspicious transactions in Naxal-affected Chhattisgarh, while TTI’s portal data was deleted through remote access after ED searches.

According to the FIR, Micah Mark was intercepted at Bengaluru airport with 24 foreign debit cards, while investigators recorded digital evidence destruction, shell entities, Rs 37 lakh seizure and UAPA sections in the case file.

The raid on Madan Mitra comes barely weeks after the ED arrested another senior TMC leader and former minister, Sujit Bose, in May 2026 in connection with the same recruitment scam.

In a massive state-wide crackdown, the BJP government in West Bengal has arrested over 70 TMC leaders and councilors in a single week. The sweeping multi-district operation targets high-level recruitment fraud, local extortion syndicates, post-poll violence, and misappropriated government funds.

Santanu Sinha Biswas, a highly influential figure in the Kolkata Police Department, came under ED's radar when it was examining Kasba-Golpark-based criminal Pappu's bank accounts. The agency found suspicious financial transactions linked to Biswas.