CBI arrests senior ED official from Odisha in Rs 2-crore bribery case
The agency apprehended the senior ED official, Chintan Raghuvanshi, a 2013-batch Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer, after he demanded a bribe of Rs 2 crore from an Odisha-based mining trader. This was allegedly after the ED raided multiple locations linked to the businessman's company.
The CBI laid a trap after the complainant purportedly informed the agency about the situation. An FIR was lodged Thursday.
'In the complaint, it is alleged that Chintan Raghuvanahi has demanded a bribe of Rs 5 crore (which was further reduced to Rs 2 crore), out of which, first installment of Rs 50 lakh is to be paid to him on 28.05.2025 through… a private person in exchange for not attaching his hospital and not arresting him and to settle an ED case,' read the FIR.
The agency verified the complaint through an officer, who in his report, said the 'private person' had directed the complainant to pay Rs 50 lakh as the first installment at 11 am Thursday, CBI sources told The Indian Express, adding that the agency recovered colour-coded cash while arrested the official.
The ED official's lawyer Siddhant Mohanty was quoted by PTI as saying in Bhubaneswar that a special CBI court has remanded Raghuvanshi to judicial custody for 14 days.
'However, his bail petition has not been rejected. It will be heard on June 4,' Mohanty said.
When contacted, the lawyer refused to make any further comments.
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