Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Vigilance officials have unearthed more benami accounts and property of former Nabarangpur Additional Sub-Collector Prasanta Kumar Rout.
A source in Vigilance Monday said that Rout was brought on five-day remand on orders passed by Special Judge Vigilance, Sundargarh from June 28 last.
He was interrogated in a disproportionate assets (DA) case by a team of Odisha Vigilance and during interrogation three more plots in the name of his spouse were unearthed.
During interrogation, the former Additional Sub collector — who has been given voluntary retirement by the government — had confessed to have opened six benami accounts in the name of different persons and deposited Rs. 1.2 crore.
This apart, one Bank locker at UCO Bank, Bhadrak was traced.
Rout was arrested by Odisha Vigilance June 24 last and forwarded to the Special Judge, Vigilance court of Sundargarh for possession of disproportionate assets worth Rs 5,21,09,659 which is 506 per cent of his known sources of income, which he could not account for satisfactorily.
The Vigilance sleuths had recovered Rs 3,02,30,800 cash which included Rs 2.23 crore cash from Rout’s residence at Kanan Vihar in Bhubaneswar and Rs 77 lakh from his Nabarangpur official residence during raids June 23 last.
The investigation of the case is in progress.
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