ED alleges irregularities worth around Rs 4,000 crore in BMC's spendings during the pandemic; cases have been filed against several Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders, civic officials, middlemen and contractors
Suijt Patkar allegedly orchestrated and effected a fraud amounting to Rs 31.84 crore by obtaining a tender for Lifeline Management Services in which he was a partner.
Enforcement Directorate’s charge sheet claims Dahisar Jumbo COVID centre faced 50-60 per cent staff shortage; inaccurate invoices from the hospital management c
In pursuance of their plan, they gave instructions to their staff members deployed at the aforesaid Jumbo Covid Centres to create forged attendance records in line with the EOI (expression of interest) issued by the civic body. As per the plan, there was huge under-deployment of medical staff, which had put the lives of the COVID-19 patients at risk, the chargesheet said.
Businessman Sujit Patkar played a "key role" in the allotment of a civic contract to his partnership firm for running jumbo COVID-19 centres in Mumbai, the Enforcement Directorate said in its chargesheet.