Four-time Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha member Kalyan Banerjee has reportedly lost around ₹55 lakh in an online financial fraud in West Bengal.

According to Banerjee, the former chief whip of the TMC in the Lok Sabha, the money was linked to an old State Bank of India (SBI) account where his salary had been deposited between 2001 and 2006, during his tenure as a Trinamool Congress legislator from Asansol (Dakshin) in the then undivided Burdwan district (now part of West Burdwan).

The account had remained dormant for years due to inactivity. Recently, Banerjee discovered that ₹55 lakh had first been transferred from his personal SBI account at the Kalighat branch to this dormant account and was then immediately withdrawn.

Upon realising the unauthorised transactions, Banerjee prompt

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