Vigilance Raids On Engineer’s House In Odisha’s Malkangiri: FDs, Insurance Worth Rs 1.77 Crore Found

Malkangiri: Raids by Odisha Vigilance continued on Sunday on Ashish Kumar Dash, Superintending Engineer, Rural Works Division in Malkangiri.

Vigilance teams unearthed Fixed Deposits (FDs) and insurance policies worth Rs 1.77 crore. The raids found Rs 78 lakh deposited in 18 FDs in Axis Bank.

On Saturday, Vigilance officials recovered around Rs 21 lakh during raids on his properties in the district.

Following information that he was carrying huge ill-gotten money, Vigilance sleuths intercepted him in Malkangiri on Friday and seized over Rs 10.23 lakh cash.

Following this, the government quarters and office of Dash in Malkangiri were searched. Over Rs 21.75 lakh cash and 602 gram gold, including 17 gold coins of 10 gm each, were recovered from his house.

Dash was also found to have purchased an apartment worth Rs 32.30 lakh in Shantivaan Society, Belagachia, Barang, Cuttack in the name of his wife. A plot of land at Baripal in Keonjhar district is also in the name of his wife.