The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Odisha Police on Thursday arrested businessman and youth BJD leader Soumya Shankar Chakra a.k.a. Raja. The EOW arrested Chakra in connection with a case registered on February 7, 2025, on the basis of the allegations of a villager residing near the Gandhamardan Mines, Keonjhar district. The complainant has alleged that some influential persons misappropriated the funds of the cooperative society between 2017-18 and 2023-24. Around Rs 33 crore was distributed to local villagers so that they always came in support of accused Chakra. The society’s President Manas Barik and Secretary, Utkal Das, respectively, with the help of some other local influential persons had defrauded huge sums of money, said the ADG Crime Branch. The loading agency had earned around Rs 185 crore from 2017-2018 to March 2024, said Vinaytosh Mishra.