Malkangiri, Feb. 6 -- A day after Odisha vigilance sleuths recovered a whopping Rs 1.55 crore cash from the residence of Deputy Director & PD Watershed, Malkangiri Santanu Mohapatra while carrying out multiple raids, the anti-corruption bureau in a release said he is suspected to have misappropriated government funds and was brought to Bhubaneswar for the inventory of his locker at SBI Bank, Kapilaprasad Branch.

As per the release, Mohapatra and his colleagues are suspected to have siphoned off government funds showing work done and making payments to labor accounts, which were then withdrawn and misappropriated. Large number of passbooks of laborers were reportedly recovered during searches at the residence of Biswajit Mandal, DEO and A...