{"id":32337,"date":"2026-07-08T04:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/it-got-rs-160-crore-from-tmc-ed-searches-kolkata-company-over-aircraft-deal-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:46:03","slug":"it-got-rs-160-crore-from-tmc-ed-searches-kolkata-company-over-aircraft-deal-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/it-got-rs-160-crore-from-tmc-ed-searches-kolkata-company-over-aircraft-deal-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It got Rs 160 crore from TMC\u2019: ED searches Kolkata company over aircraft deal | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132250831,imgsize-38890,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ed-searches-kol-co-over-aircraft-deal-with-tmc.jpg\" alt=\"'It got Rs 160 crore from TMC\u2019: ED searches Kolkata company over aircraft deal\" title=\"Rs 160 cr allegedly given to company from party a\/cs\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Rs 160 cr allegedly given to company from party a\/cs\">Rs 160 cr allegedly given to company from party a\/cs<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/enforcement-directorate\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Enforcement Directorate<\/a> Tuesday carried out searches in Kolkata to probe the purchase of an aircraft \u2014 Embraer 600 \u2014 and an Agusta 109 SP helicopter for Rs 112 crore by Kolkata-based Carewell Aviation India Pvt Ltd, and Rs 160 crore it allegedly had got from <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/tmc\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">TMC<\/a>.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>This aviation company, incorporated in Sept 2021 after TMC came to office for the third time in Bengal with 215 seats, had rented the Embraer and the chopper to TMC as it received funds during 2023 and 2026. Searches were conducted at five places in Kolkata in connection with alleged dishonest financial dealings, sources said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/> Searches were conducted over unlawful collection of money and routing of suspected funds through certain bank accounts of TMC,\u201d sources said. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>A senior official said the premises searched belonged to Carewell group of companies. \u201cIt has been revealed that around Rs 160 crore was transferred from TMC accounts to Carewell Aviation India Pvt Ltd and its related entity, possibly between April 2023 and June 2026. Carewell Aviation routed Rs 82.9 crore to another newly incorporated related entity in this period,\u201d he added. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>TOI reached out to Carewell Aviation but there was no response. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Sources said ED\u2019s preliminary investigation revealed Carewell transferred significant amounts into a related entity to purchase Embraer Legacy 600, an aircraft suspected to have been largely used by a top TMC neta. The company also used funds to buy a chopper, Agusta 109 SP. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>ED is probing \u201cforeign funding\u201d used to buy the chopper. However, most of the funds have been sourced directly from TMC accounts, the source added. \u201cThe Embraer Legacy aircraft and the Agusta helicopter were rented out to TMC itself, even though they were purchased allegedly from the corpus of TMC,\u201d a source said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/it-got-rs-160-crore-from-tmc-ed-searches-kolkata-company-over-aircraft-deal\/articleshow\/132250825.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rs 160 cr allegedly given to company from party a\/cs NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate Tuesday carried out searches in Kolkata to probe the purchase of an aircraft \u2014 Embraer 600 \u2014 and an Agusta 109 SP helicopter for Rs 112 crore by Kolkata-based Carewell Aviation India Pvt Ltd, and Rs 160 crore it allegedly had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}