What happened
Rajesh Chandra Mohanty joined the Odisha government in 1994 as a stipendiary engineer at Rs 2,000 a month. Thirty-two years later, as Additional Chief Engineer in the Dam Safety wing, vigilance officers raided six locations and found a triple-storey building, a farmhouse with a double-storey building on 1.71 acres, eight plots across three districts, Rs 1.81 crore in bank deposits, 350 grams of gold, two cars, and — the chef's kiss — Rs 13.47 lakh worth of flight tickets. The cash they recovered was helpfully stored in envelopes labeled with project and agreement references, because if you're going to embezzle, you might as well keep good records. The man responsible for making sure Odisha's dams hold water apparently couldn't hold his own finances together.