Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against nine individuals, including the Civil Surgeon of Pirojpur and the Resident Medical Officer (RMO) of the Zilla hospital, for allegedly embezzling money by showing receipts on paper of medicines and other medical supplies worth about Tk 2 crore from the contracting organisation in the 2023-2024 fiscal year.
ACC Pirojpur Integrated District Office Deputy Assistant Director Md Moazzem Hossain Samrat gave this information through a press release on Saturday.
He said Deputy Assistant Director of the ACC Pirojpur Integrated District Office Md Sharif Sheikh filed the case on February 20 under the ACC Act by the instructions of its Dhaka office.
The accused in the case are: Civil Surgeon of Pirojpur Dr Md Mizanur Rahman, Senior Consultant (Gynaecology) of the district hospital Dr Farhana Rahman, its RMO Dr Md Nizam Uddin, Junior Consultant Dr Suranjit Kumar Saha, storekeeper Md Al Amin Gazi and medicine supply contractors S M Shamsul Arefin, Md Haniful Islam, Zahirul Islam and Md Rasheduzzaman Ershad.
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