New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday attached properties & assets worth Rs 12.2 crores in connection with irregularities in jumbo Covid facilities opened in Dahisar & Worli during Covid-19 outbreak.
The attached movable & immovable assets belong to Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s aide Sujit Patker. He along with partners Dr Hemant Gupta, Rajeev Salunkhe, Sanjay Shah & Sunil Kadam were at the forefront of amassing unaccounted wealth via M/s Lifeline Hospital Management Services.
The attached assets include three flats in Mumbai along with Mutual fund units and bank accounts.
The agency found that the accused generated unaccounted wealth from the Covid scam and diverted these funds for buying personal assets & making investments in real estate. These funds were reportedly used for buying flats, mutual fund investments and increasing bank balances.
The ED initiated investigation against M/s Lifeline Hospital Management Service, its partners on basis of FIR registered by Azad Maidan Police station.
While unearthing the Covid scam, the agency found that MCGM had floated tender/contracts for manpower supply at various Jumbo Covid facilities for ICU Beds, Oxygenated Beds and non- Oxygenated Beds in Mumbai through Expression of Interest (EOI). M/s Lifeline Hospital Management services obtained the tender for supply of staff members i.e., Doctors, nurses, multi-purpose workers (Wardboys, Aayas & Doctor Assistant) and technicians to Jumbo Covid facilities at Dahisar and Worli for the period from July 2020 to February, 2022 based on incomplete and false documents.
It further found that during service period, EOI conditions were not maintained by the partners of M/s Lifeline Hospital Management services and there were huge under deployment of the staff members. However, the invoices were submitted by showing adequate staff attendance as per the EOI conditions through fake and fabricated attendance sheets and staff records at Dahisar Jumbo Covid facility and no attendance / staff data was submitted for Worli Covid facility.
Despite of the same, the partners of M/s Lifeline in connivance with BMC staff managed to receive Rs. 32.44 Crore from MCGM Authorities during September 2020 to June 2022.
Further investigation is under progress.
