The Vigilance Directorate of Odisha claimed that they have seized ₹1.36 crore from an engineer — the highest ever cash seizure in the history of the State’s anti-corruption agency — on Monday.
When vigilance sleuths raided a Cuttack-based apartment belonging to the wife of Ashish Kumar Dash, Superintending Engineer of Rural Works of Malkangiri, they were in for a surprise.
“The apartment had a locker akin to strongroom locker used by banks for stashing wads of notes. Sleuths found ₹1.15 crore from the locker. Besides, 632 gm of gold including biscuits and coins were recovered,” said the officer.
