Vigilance officers on Sunday arrested Brahmapur Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Ashish Kumar Behera on the charge of possessing disproportionate assets (DA) worth Rs 1.60 crore in excess to his known sources of income.
Earlier on Friday and Saturday, the anti-corruption wing officials had conducted raids on his office rood and houses at seven places and detected movable and immovable assets worth Rs 2,19,37,165 in his and his family members’ names, informed an official release.
The detected assets include a 3-BHK flat at Bhubaneswar worth Rs 63,67,500, four plots at Bhubaneswar, Berhmpuar and Bhanjanagar together worth Rs 68,50,000, insurance deposits of Rs 45,44,405, bank an Postal deposits Rs 9,35,059, a Hundai Grand i10 car worth Rs 6,50,700, a scooty of Rs 50,000, gold and silver ornaments of Rs 12,98,640, hard cash of Rs 82,020 and household articles of Rs 11,58,841.
After search, inventory and further enquiry, the income, expenditure and assets of Behera was calculated and he was found in possession of assets disproportionate to the known sources of income to the tune of Rs 1,60,00,000. He was arrested and forwarded to the court on Sunday. He was remanded to judicial custody till August 3, 2019.
Investigation was in progress, informed the release.