THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau is investigating the role of high-ranking officials in corruption in forest department constructions. This comes in the backdrop of the discovery of documents showing illegal money transfers of Rs 1.07 crore from contractors to the accounts of officials in the raids under Operation Jungle Safari and Vanaraksha conducted at 71 forest offices. The transactions of five years including the contract will be directly examined.

Vigilance has found that there have been widespread irregularities in the construction of elephant trenches, elephant walls, solar fencing and other buildings. It has been revealed that most of the work was not as per the estimate and the construction was of poor quality.

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