Bhubaneswar: Vigilance sleuths on Thursday raided five places, including the residential house and office of Odisha Administrative Service officer Ashutosh Samal, on charges of amassing disproportionate assets.

Vigilance sleuths have traced movable and immovable properties worth Rs 1.22 crore of the class I official working with the revenue and disaster management department.

The anti-corruption wing conducted simultaneous raids on Samal's residential quarter in Unit II area, a flat at Kharavela Nagar, his office at the state secretariat, ancestral house at Sasan Purusottampur in Jajpur and another house at Nabarangpur village in Bhadrak's Bhandaripokhari police limits.

Vigilance sleuths said Samal had previously worked as the tehsildar in Bhubaneswar.

During their raids on Samal's properties, vigilance officials have traced a flat worth Rs 80lakh at an apartment in Kharavela Nagar and two plots worth Rs 20.07 lakh in the city. The sleuths also stumbled on more than Rs 10 lakh that Samal had in various bank accounts and insurance deposits. They also found gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 3.1 lakh.

Vigilance sleuths said that the search process was still on.

"Simultaneous searches were conducted on the basis of a court warrant and further investigation is continuing. We are ascertaining the actual income of the official," said a sleuth. He also said the income of the official would be calculated to ascertain the gap between the cost of assets and actual income.

A government official said the involvement of class I and class II officials in corruption cases had emerged as a major concern.