Odisha Vigilance booked 200 officers, unearthed disproportionate assets worth Rs 174 cr in 2022
Odisha Vigilance booked 200 officers, unearthed disproportionate assets worth Rs 174 cr in 2022
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Bhubaneswar: During 2022, Odisha Vigilance registered 285 complaints against 554 people, exposed disproportionate assets of Rs 174 crore, and made the greatest cash seizures in its history, with top four recoveries totaling Rs 7 crore.
During the year, the anti-corruption agency filed cases against 60 Class-I officers, 53 Class-II officers, 227 Class-III employees, 7 Class-IV employees, 38 other public servants, and 159 private individuals.
The 285 instances included 84 DA cases, 118 trap cases, and the rest were various corruption charges. Last year, Vigilance detected and registered the largest number of DA instances in the country, and this year is expected to be similar.
DA cases were filed against 91 public employees and 56 private citizens. The total amount of disproportionate assets in all 84 cases was Rs 174.83 crore. According to a Vigilance statement, 32 DA cases were filed against Class-I officers and 27 against Class-II officers.
The top four cash seizures in DA searches in the state Vigilance's history occurred in 2022, with a recovery of Rs 7.01 crore.
Over the course of the year, 200 people were arrested. There were 37 Class I officers, 39 Class II officers, 105 Class III employees, 4 Class IV employees, 5 other public personnel, and 10 private individuals among them.
47 engineers from various departments, 31 revenue officials, 20 police officers, 13 forest officials, 12 doctors, and 7 ICDS employees were detained.
In the 118 trap incidents, 129 people were caught red-handed asking and collecting bribes totaling Rs 36.94 lakh, including 126 government personnel. During the year, it seized four large bribes, the largest of which was Rs 10 lakh.
The Vigilance has frozen the bank accounts of 898 corrupt state officials. Cryptocurrency assets were also discovered and frozen.
Investigations were completed in 347 instances in 2022, with a disposition rate of 122% of registration. This is the highest disposal rate in a decade.
Investigations in all trap instances from 2021 and earlier, as well as more than 60% of trap cases from 2022, have been completed. In 2022, 91 people were convicted.
