By Andy Sullivan
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:34pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI raided the former office of Obama administration official Vivek Kundra and arrested two people in a corruption probe on Thursday, but Kundra is not a target of the investigation, a spokeswoman for Washington’s mayor said.

The FBI searched the offices of the District of Columbia’s chief technology officer, a post formerly held by Kundra, as it investigates employee corruption there, spokeswoman Mafara Hobson said.

President Barack Obama named Kundra, 34, last week to be the federal government’s chief information officer, responsible for overseeing the government’s computer systems.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the investigation a “serious matter” and declined further comment.

Yusuf Acar, who works in the city’s technology office, and another man, Sushil Bansal, were arrested, FBI spokeswoman Lindsay Godwin said.

Godwin declined to say whether the two were arrested on bribery charges, as reported by The Washington Post. The charges remain under seal, Godwin said.

Acar describes himself as the information office’s chief security officer in a video posted on its website.

Bansal is a former Washington government employee who heads Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp., a technology firm that has won contracts from the city’s technology office.

He won the Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2008 from an association of Indian-Americans. The company could not immediately be reached for comment.

(Additional reporting by Jim Vicini and Ross Colvin, Editing by Patricia Zengerle)

Obama official not a target in FBI raid: spokesperson