Rs 28.5 crore cash, 15 kg gold bars found at ex-Bengal bus driver’s home

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Police sources said during preliminary questioning, the arrested man confessed that the money and gold belonged to an illegal organised syndicate. (Express Photo)At daybreak police in Bengal’s Birbhum loaded Rs 28.5 crore in cash and 15 kg in gold bars – worth an estimated Rs 21.3 crore – into six vans and a large transport vehicle, and drove away. The money and gold had been seized from the home of a local businessman – Muhammad Minar Mandal, a former West Bengal government bus driver – whose family is known to be closely associated with senior Trinamool leader Anubrata Mondal. Mandal was arrested Thursday. He has not commented, so far, on the cash and gold recovery but his son has claimed the family did not know of the fortune hidden inside their home.