Case against DRI officer for Rs 72L illegal assets

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The CBI has registered a case against a Senior Intelligence Officer (SIO) of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Aizawl Regional Unit for possession of alleged disproportionate assets to the tune of Rs 72.27 lakh.

The accused Kaikhohao Doungel, Senior Intelligence Officer (SIO), Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Aizawl Regional Unit was originally a Superintendent of Customs and is now posted on loan to DRI. The disproportionate assets account for 80 per cent of the gross income during the check period from January 2014 to May 2021. It was alleged that the accused during the period January, 2014 to May, 2021, had acquired huge assets, both movable and immovable to the tune of Rs 1,42,71,447 including  three homestead land at Kangpokpi (Manipur); two RCC buildings at Imphal East and at Aizawl besides bank balances which were disproportionate to his known sources of income to the tune of Rs 72,27,768, the CBI said in a statement.

The agency on Friday conducted searches at the office as well as at the residential premises of the accused at Aizawl and Imphal which led to recovery of documents related to purchase of the land, bank accounts in the name of the accused and his wife maintained at various banks, insurance policies, luxurious household articles and other incriminating documents, it added.

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