Bhubaneswar, Sept. 18 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Police Crime Branch on Monday conducted a raid on the office of Daily newspaper, Sambad over loan fraud allegations. Three joint teams comprising 12 officials of EOW, and Commissionerate Police are conducting the raids at the Sambad office in Rasulgarh area of Bhubaneswar.

Earlier, a former employee of the newspaper had levelled loan fraud allegations against Soumya Ranjan Patnaik, the Editor of Odia Daily, Sambad, and the Human Resources (HR) head of the media house, Baijayanti Kar. The complainant had alleged that the officials of the media house took a loan in his name without his knowledge.

As per the complaint, Rs 5 lakh loan was taken by creating a fake accoun...