Vigilance officers registered criminal cases against four Markfed officers of Bhubaneswar buffer godown for misappropriating 353.05 metric tonnes of fertilizers worth Rs 44,11,500.
The officers against whom cases were filed are godown In-charge Manoj Kumar Pandey, Area Manager Rajkishore Panda, Input Manager Dukhishyam Mandhata and Development Officer Ashok Kumar Mahasuar, informed an official release.
Vigilance sleuths had conducted surprise checks in the gowdown between April 6 and 17. During scrutiny, documents and the stock register revealed that the stock of fertilizers of different brands like Urea IFCO, IPl Urea, MOP IPl, DAP IFCO, DAP PPl etc. should be 648.300 metric tonnes. But during physical verification, only 295.25 metric tonne of fertilizer o were found, which is 353.05 mt less than the recorded quantum.
The investigation was still on, said the release.