Acting on the complaint of acquisition of disproportionate-to-income assets by Puri district’s Nimapara Irrigation Division Assistant Executive Engineer Laxmidhar Biswal, Vigilance officials on Monday conducted raids on his office room and houses at different places and detected assets worth Rs 1,60,82,084 possessed by him and his family mebers.
Separate teams of the anti-corruption agency officials conducted simultaneous searches five places, including one at Madhubana, on the capacity of a court warrant.
The detected assets include a four-storied building at Puri of Rs 40,83,958, a three-storied building of Rs 32,21,100, an asbestos-roofed house at Nimapara of Rs 6,13,000, advance payment for purchase of flat Rs 2,12,000, seven homestead plots of Rs 8, 93, 200, two plots 1,15,333, two cars 35,21,270, three bikes of Rs 1,37,514, insurance deposits of Rs 7,47,289, gold and silver ornaments of Rs 14,79,580, bank deposits of Rs 1,35,637 and cash and household articles of Rs 9,21,703.
Inquiry was still in progress, said an official release.