ED attaches property of ex-forest officer

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR :  The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally hooked up property value `2.04 crore beneath Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in reference to a disproportionate property case registered in opposition to Maheswar Pradhan, ex-divisional supervisor of Odisha Forest Development Corporation restricted, Angul. 

In January 2020, Vigilance officers had carried out simultaneous searches at Pradhan’s property over allegations of amassing disproportionate property. Searches had been carried out at Pradhan’s flat at Patia space, two-storey constructing in Jagamara right here, two-storey constructing beneath Pipili police limits, IOCL gas station at Pallahara, single-storey constructing at Kansar and his workplace chamber in Angul. 

Pradhan and his relations had been present in possession of property amounting to over Rs 2.65 crore, together with over Rs 1.26 crore deposits in numerous banks, put up workplaces and monetary establishments. In a associated improvement, ED has provisionally hooked up property value Rs 1.67 crore beneath PMLA in reference to a  disproportionate property case registered in opposition to Rabi Narayan Rath, senior travelling inspector (accounts) of East Coast Railway in Bhubaneswar.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had carried out raids on the home of Rath in City’s Kolathia space in February final 12 months for allegedly accumulating disproportionate property to the tune of over Rs 1.19 crore.
CBI officers had acquired info that Rath had amassed movable and immovable property by unlawful means between April 1, 2006 and November 30, 2020.