The Crime Desk: The ACC has filed a case against four persons, including Mohammad Furkan, accountant of the 250-bed general hospital of Andarkilla in the city, on the charge of embezzling Tk. Mohammad Furkan is the son of dead Master Mahmudur Rahman of Puichhari village of Banshkhali, Chittagong. The other three accused are Munsi Farrukh Hossain Mintu, a resident of Gopalganj, owner of M/s Ahmed Enterprises in Mirpur, Dhaka; his brother Munsi Sajjad Hossain; and Mukit Mondal, a resident of Rangpur, former staff of the company. Assistant Director of ACC District Office Chittagong-1 yesterday. Enamul Haque filed the case in the same office. The deputy director of the office, Najmuchayadat, confirmed this information to the media and said that the accused have committed crimes punishable under various sections of the Penal Code and a section of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Action will be taken if anyone else is found involved in the investigation of the case.
According to the statement of the case, tenders were invited for the purchase of MRI equipment (ICU ventilator, ICU bed, and cardiac patient monitor with IVP and capnography) for a 250-bed general hospital in the financial year 2013-14. Six contracting companies participated in it. Among these, M/s Ahmed Enterprises was selected as the lowest bidder, and the company was awarded the work order on April 30, 2015, for the supply of machinery. In continuation of this, M/s Ahmed Enterprises supplied 8 ICU ventilators, 8 ICU beds, and 1 cardiac patient monitor worth a total of 5 crore, 37 lakh, 25 thousand taka.
The hospital authorities did not accept the supplied equipment due to defects. Also did not pay the money. According to the statement, the ACC filed a case on November 25, 2019 regarding defects in goods and irregularities in the tender process. After completing the investigation of the case, if the allegations are proved true, the charge sheet is filed in the court, which is pending in court. But the said company left the equipment in the hospital. As of 2019, the equipment in the hospital is lying unused. Although the Ministry of Health has allocated money for the bill, the expenditure has not been sanctioned.
Dr. general hospital supervisor for not providing expenditure approval. Sheikh Fazle Rabbi wrote a letter to the ministry on February 3, 2022, asking for an expenditure sanction. However, no expenditure sanction has been issued by the Ministry. Meanwhile, on June 26 of the same year, Munsi Farrukh’s brother Munsi Sajjad Hossain sent a fake expenditure approval letter signed by Sushil Kumar Pal, Senior Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to Chief Accounts and Finance Officer, Segunbagicha, Chittagong General Hospital Accounts Officer (current duty) from his WhatsApp mobile number. Send to Furqan’s mobile no. Mohammad Furkan fake expenditure approval letter hospital supervisor Dr. Sheikh Fazle forwarded it to Rabbi’s mobile. Besides, on June 28, 2022, Mukit Mondal, the office assistant of Ahmed Enterprises, came to General Hospital. Basically, the owner of the contracting company, Munshi Farrukh, his brother Sajjad, and office assistant Mukit Mandal Chittagong General Hospital’s accounting officer, Mohammad Furkan, connived with each other to create fake expenditure approval. Sheikh Fazle prepared a bill of Tk 5 crore, 37 lakh, and 25 thousand under the sole signature of the rabbi. The bill was sent to the office of the Divisional Accounts Officer of Chittagong on the same day for passing. The bill was without countersignature (without the signature of the accounting officer or the bill maker). But the office copy of the bill and his signature on the bill registrar. He stayed in the accounting office even during the clearing of bills.
During the verification of the bill by the Chittagong Divisional Accounts Office, the allocation letter was not paginated, the allocation letter was not processed properly, i.e., the letter was sent to the Accounts Office, Segunbagicha, instead of the Chittagong Accounts Office, and the bill was rejected and sent back as fake. is As a result, the concerned could not withdraw the check of Tk 5 crore, 37 lakh, 25 thousand. On the instructions of Farrukh, the owner of Ahmed Enterprises, his brother Sajjad Hossain and office assistant Mukit Mandal conspired to create fake expenditure approvals. But the said letter is not supposed to be submitted by the contracting company.
