Hyderabad: In an alleged fraud involving fake medical bills worth Rs 2.2 crore in the South Central Railway (SCR), the Central Bureau of Investigation, Hyderabad, registered a case against an accounts assistant and three medical agencies in the city.
Deputy chief vigilance officer (DCVO) at South Central Railways, R.V.R. Murthy had lodged a complaint with the CBI, Hyderabad, in the second week of May, alleging that a fraudulent payment of medical bills was detected during vigilance checks by the principal financial advisor’s office in which around 31 fake bills without a GST number and fake purchase orders were passed between October 2018 and April 2019.
In his complaint, the DCVO alleged that one V. Ganesh Kumar while working as accounts assistant in the expenditure section had misused his official position and generated and passed fake bills in connivance with Sai Balaji Pharma and Surgicals, Vinayaka Agencies, and Thirumala Agencies.
The preliminary inquiry by the vigilance section revealed that the fake bills amounted to Rs 2.2 crore and uncovered the involvement of more private persons in the fraud. The amount was found to be transferred into private bank accounts of the agencies at the same branch in Habsiguda.
After the alleged fraud was detected, the three bank accounts were blocked and the suspect Ganesh Kumar was placed under suspension from May 10.
The CBI on May 31 registered a case under sections 120(B), 420, 409, 468 and 491 of the IPC and sections 13(2) r/w 12(1) (a) of the Prevention of Corruption Act against the SCR employee and the three agencies as named in the complaint.
