India, Feb. 27 -- For years, Debabrata Mohanty, deputy director of mines, Cuttack Circle, never let his guard down. He would never let his driver drop him home. He rather chose to walk back home after getting dropped off by his driver a few kilometres short of his Bhubaneswar flat.

The crores stuffed inside trolley bags and almirahs in his apartment remain untouched, uninvested, a problem he planned to solve after retirement, albeit, he never got the chance.

A day after Odisha Vigilance seized Rs.4.27 crore in cash from Mohanty's flat, the largest such haul in the agency's history, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday wrote to the state vigilance seeking case details to launch a parallel money laundering probe, officials said.

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