The Enforcement Directorate (ED) would probe the alleged involvement of senior bureaucrat Ajay Kumar Das in financial irregularities. Sources said the ED has registered a money laundering case against Das, former Special Secretary of the Revenue and Disaster Management Department.
On August 13, the Vigilance police had arrested Das for amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. During to a simultaneous raid in Bhubaneswar, Puri and Baleswar, they identified several flats, a building and plots owned by him. Besides, Rs 50.83 lakh of bank savings and fixed deposit, more than 1 kg gold and silver jewellery, life insurance policies worth Rs 81.53 lakh and Rs 2.69-lakh cash were recovered from his possession.