The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday launched searches at multiple locations in Chhattisgarh as part of a money laundering investigation into an over Rs 500 crore worth medical supply 'scam', official sources said.
Premises linked to some government officials, medical suppliers and agents apart from some 'middlemen' are being raided in Raipur, Durg and adjoining places, they said.
The ED probe under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act stems from an Anti-Corruption Bureau/Economic Offences Wing chargesheet filed in April against six persons for alleged irregularities in purchase of medical equipment and reagent chemicals in 2023 that caused a loss of Rs 550 crore to the state exchequer.
The ACB/EOW, on Jan. 22, lodged a case against officials of the state-run Chhattisgarh Medical Services Corporation Ltd in Raipur and Directorate of Health Services department as well as four firms namely Mokshit Corporation (Durg), CB Corporation (Durg), Records and Medicare System HSIIDC (Panchkula, Haryana) and Shri Sharda Industries (Raipur), as well as others.
It was alleged that the scam involves purchase of reagents and equipment without checking requirement/availability of these items in health centres. The CGMSCL has made purchases worth billions of rupees between January 2022 to Oct. 31, 2023 in collusion with Mokshit Corporation and its shell company, the ACB/EOW had said.
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