The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Crime Branch police on Tuesday arrested an accountant of a premier health research institute here on charges of fraud.
The accused Dilip Mohanty, the accountant of the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), was arrested in connection with misappropriation of `1.22 crore, Crime Branch Special DG BK Sharma said.
The officials are also investigating involvement of other staffs in the embezzlement of funds, sources said.
The case of misappropriation came to the fore during a special audit of the accounts of RMRC exposing the alleged involvement of Mohanty in it. Following this, the accused returned `46 lakh to the institution.
The arrest was made after the research institute lodged a complaint with the EOW against the accountant.