New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday arrested former West Bengal minister and TMC leader Sujit Bose in the municipality recruitment scam.Days after TMC’s defeat in West Bengal, the ED questioned senior party leader Sujit Bose in connection with its probe into the municipality recruitment ‘scam’ case.Bose is accused of illegally recommending 150 candidates for various posts under the South Dumdum Municipality in exchange for financial benefits. Before the arrest, the ED traced the direct proceeds of crime in the form of flats acquired by him in return for providing municipality jobs to various persons. Additionally, the anti-money laundering agency also detected huge amounts of cash deposited in bank accounts under his control. The former TMC minister will be produced in the special court on Tuesday morning.Former fire minister Bose, who had lost in his stronghold Bidhannagar, was directed by the court to join the investigation.While CM Mamata Banerjee’s terms were marked by a series of alleged scams, one that stands out is the transaction of money related to recruitment in municipalities, ED sources told TOI, which had grown close to her nephew and Diamond Harbor MP Abhishek Banerjee, who is seen as Mamata’s presumptive successor, who was widely known as the CM-invader until the BJP’s landslide. Trinamool Congress’s ambition to prolong its rule has not been buried. Several money laundering cases being investigated by the ED, including that of political consultancy firm I-PAC in the coal smuggling ‘scam’, are set to return from Delhi to Kolkata.The investigation was stalled because ED officials in Kolkata were allegedly being “intimidated” and several accused refused to cooperate despite repeated summons. Sources said the ED may resume questioning of the accused including Abhishek, his wife Rujira, former DGP Rajeev Kumar, former Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma, then DCP Priyabrata Roy besides I-PAC chief Prateek Jain, from whose premises Mamata had taken files seized by the agency during the January 8 search operation in the presence of her police officers.