patna the economic offences unit eou sleuths of the state police on saturday conducted searches on the premises linked to vibha kumari deputy director of higher education in connection with a disproportionate assets da case and unearthed unaccounted wealth worth more than rs18 crore which is expected to go up as the investigation was going till late eveningthe eou team found that she had bought three dda flats in delhis rohini one residential flat in patna and four residential plots in muzaffarpur and vaishali districts according to the eou officers vibha made an attempt to hide the money earned from illegal means by showing a much lesser amount than the actual purchase amount in the registry deeds it also came to light that she invested huge amount through her husband in sharesstock mutual funds bank fixed deposits and insurance policiesthe raiding team seized property papers 41 bank passbooks papers of bank fixed deposits and saving accounts for further probe in the da caseadg of eou nayyar hasnain khan said separate teams raided three locations including her flat near saguna mor and the office in vikas bhawan on bailey road in patna besides her inlaws house at dharampur in vaishali district afte procuring search warrants from the the court on saturday an fir was registered against vibha under the prevention of corruption act 1988 on friday and investigations were initiated before conducting the raid he saidin the course of verification it was found that before joining the government service vibha and her husband ashok kumar sharma did not have any property other than the ancestral ones nor did she have any other source of income other than salary she built in her sons name a grand house in vaishali where a cowshed and a pond for fish cultivation are under construction an eou officer saidvibha contributed as a public servant in bihar education service in march 1993 after qualifying the 37th competitive examination conducted by the bihar public service commission since the initial period of her service her role was questionable and controversial and many allegations had been levelled against her it has also been revealed that her husband had been dependent on vibha for a long time and he had no direct source of income but for the money earned illegally by her by purchasing three suvs in the name of her husband she started running a travel agency 34 years ago from her flat at vasikunj says a part of the eou press note