ED raids premises of Pramila’s brother

Bhubaneswar: The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday searched premis-es linked to the deceased brother of a BJD MLA as part of a money launder-ing investigation, official sources said.

The house and some other locations linked to late Khirod Malik, brother of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) legislator Pramila Malik, in Sambalpur are being raid-ed, the sources said. A response from the MLA could not be obtained imme-diately.

Pramila Malik is a seven-time MLA. She represents Binjharpur Assembly seat (Jajpur district) in Odisha Assembly.

The 61-year-old politician has served as the Revenue and Disaster Manage-ment minister in the previous Naveen Patnaik government. Khirod Malik had died in September. The money laundering investigation of the Central agency is allegedly linked to a bank loan fraud case, sources said.