Key Points
Patkars firm is accused of receiving around 31.84 crore from the BMC as part of the contract even though between 50 and 60 per cent of the medical staff at the centres for which it had billed the civic body were allegedly non-existent..
Bisure had allegedly connived with the firm to approve its dubious bills related to manipulated attendance sheets of the employees at the Covid centres, and received a laptop, cash and funds in his drivers account, the ED claimed..
MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday night arrested businessman Sujit Patkar, one of the four partners of the firm Lifeline Hospital Management Services (LHMS) which bagged a 38-crore civic contract to supply medical manpower to the Jumbo Covid Centres in Worli and Dahisar during the Covid-19 pandemic..
The ED source said that on the instructions of Patkar and other partners of the firm, the concerned staff submitted its attendance in bills to the BMC, showing them as regular employees providing services at the Jumbo Covid Centres..
However, he was hand in glove with the partners of LHMS and did not ensure the required number of medical staff in the centre and rather allowed/approved the fabricated bills, which were shown on required deployment of medical personnel based on fake attendance sheets of LHMS to clear all the bills in BMC, the remand application said..
