Bhubaneswar/Dhenkanal: The ED arrested businessman Ratikanta Rout in Bhubaneswar in connection with a case of financial irregularities, officials said.
Rout, a resident of Kalarahanga, was involved in the stone quarry and crusher business in Dhenkanal.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had registered a case against him in 2020.
“Rout was arrested Thursday during interrogation at the ED office in Bhubaneswar,” an official said.
The arrest comes against the backdrop of a bribery case involving a former ED official in the state.
The CBI had arrested Chintan Raghuvanshi, then deputy director of the ED in Odisha, for allegedly accepting a Rs 20 lakh bribe from Rout in return for giving him relief in the case.
The ED officer had allegedly demanded Rs 2 crore from the businessman.
Raghuvanshi was arrested by the CBI along with a middleman in May last year after the alleged bribe payment was made.
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