Cash and gold worth Rs 18 lakh were recovered from a bank locker of a suspended PWD executive engineer by the sleuths of the anti-corruption bureau, who continued with their searches today at various other banks across Goa.
The ACB had yesterday recovered cash and gold worth Rs 18 lakh from the bank locker of suspended public works department's executive engineer K H Kamaladdini, who is accused of forging documents having signature of former ministers to give away tenders to various contractors.
The raids would continue across the state in the banks where Kamaladdini has been holding accounts, Superintendent of Police (ACB) Bosco George said.
The sleuths had raided his house in Margao town earlier this week and seized several documents related to his bank accounts.
Public Works Department had complained that between October 21, 2009 to November 24, 2011, the accused had committed criminal breach of trust and forgery by repeatedly inserting a sentence in his own handwriting above the signature of then PWD Minister in official documents and using the same as genuine thereby misusing his official position as a public servant.
He also committed criminal misconduct by violating Central PWD manual by way of not publishing tenders thereby causing undue loss to the exchequer not only on the revenue that could be gained on sale of tender documents but also in not getting competitive bids thereby benefiting with undue advantage or gain to contractors.
