ED raids five locations to probe Trinamool bank accounts, funds for chartered flights

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday (July 7, 2026) raided five locations across Kolkata to investigate the financial transactions in the Trinamool Congress party accounts, their source of money, and the funds behind the party leadership’s chartered flight expenses. 

“Searches are being conducted at five premises in the matter of alleged dishonest financial dealings, unlawful collection of money and routing of suspected funds through certain bank accounts of AITC,” sources said. 

The raids were conducted on the premises of Carewell Aviation India Pvt. Ltd., a company that had received around ₹160 crore from Trinamool party accounts between April 2023 and June 2026. According to sources, Carewell Aviation Pvt. Ltd. further routed ₹82.96 crore (2023–2026) to another newly incorporated related entity. 

During the raids, the ED officials have also recovered evidence that showed that around ₹112 crore was used to purchase an Aircraft Embrarer Legacy 600 and one chopper, an Augusta 109 SP. Sources revealed that foreign funding may have been used to purchase some of these assets.  

The sources of the funds in the bank accounts and where the funds were then utilised are both being investigated. 

Frozen bank accounts 

Earlier in mid-June, three bank accounts linked to the Trinamool were frozen by local police after the party’s defected MPs and MLAs complained to the authorities. Funds to the tune of ₹440 crore are parked in these accounts, sources said. 

Former treasurer of the party Aroop Biswas wrote to the bank, flagging the split in the party’s Parliamentary and Legislative wings, and demanded a halt to all financial transactions in its account. The bank then further informed the Bidhannagar police about the decision to “debit freeze” these three accounts.