New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached assets worth Rs 1.67 crore of a railway official posted in Odisha’s capital in a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case.
The ED was investigating Rabi Narayan Rath, Senior Travelling Inspector, Accounts, East Coast Railway, Bhubaneswar, on the basis of a CBI FIR and subsequent chargesheet.
In 2021, the CBI lodged a case against Rath for allegedly possessing disproportionate assets worth Rs 1.85 crore.
In a separate case, the ED attached assets worth Rs 2.04 crore in a disproportionate assets case registered against Maheswar Pradhan, former divisional manager in the Odisha Forest Development Corporation Ltd (OFDC).
The ED was investigating Pradhan on the basis of an FIR lodged by Bhubaneswar Police.
