Hyderabad: The anti-corruption bureau (ACB) arrested a senior transport department official in Andhra Pradesh for possessing assets disproportionate to his sources of income in various states, including Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, whose value is said to Rs 800 crore, reports said.
A Mohan, East Godavari deputy transport commissioner was arrested and produced before the ACB court in Vijayawada on Thursday, according to the reports.
The ACB officials, led by its Central Investigation Unit DSP A Ramadevi, had started the raids on Mohan’s houses in nine places in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka on Thursday and continued their search on Friday as well.
Officials said Mohan has assets worth Rs 800 crore at market value, the document value of his properties is between Rs 100 crore and Rs 120 crore and that several bank lockers are yet to be opened and searched. Gold and silver jewellery and diamonds and other precious stones were also found in the houses of Mohan and his relatives.
“We found 2 kg of gold and 5 kg of silver. The other assets are 14 flats in and around Hyderabad, and one building at Panjagutta, a five-storeyed building in Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad, about 50 acres of land in Nellore, Prakasam and Chittoor districts. We also found Rs. 83,000 cash,” Ramadevi told the New Indian Express.
“We are yet to calculate the value of the ornaments, the cash in his bank accounts and valuables in bank lockers,” she said.