Govt hospital cashier sent to jail for stealing Tk 2.5cr

News Desk :
A Dhaka court on Tuesday sent the cashier of Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital to jail in a case filed over embezzling around Tk 2.5 crore from medical test fees.
Earlier today, a team of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested Abdus Sattar Mia, the cashier, from the hospital premises, said ACC Assistant Director Aminul Islam, posted at the Dhaka court.
The team was led by Md Mahbubul Alam, another ACC assistant director, said Aminul.
In the forwarding report, Mahbubul said Sattar was arrested for his alleged involvement in embezzling money collected from medical test fees. He appealed to the court to keep him in jail until investigation is completed, the ACC added.
No lawyer represented Sattar when he was produced before court.
After the hearing, Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tofazzal Hossain sent the accused to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.
According to the prosecution, Abdus Sattar embezzled Tk 2,54,43,441 from medical service and test fees at the government hospital from July to November this year.
The ACC yesterday filed a case against him with its Integrated District Office in Dhaka.
Abdus Satter used to deposit the money collected for medical services and various tests of government revenue (user fee) to Agrani Bank’s Mitford Hospital branch. Later, he used
to deposit the entire amount in the Mitford branch of Sonali Bank through treasury challan (receipt).
He used to receive cash from the daily collected user fees from Ali Imam, office assistant-cum-computer cashier of the hospital.
 According to the calculation of Zahedur Rahim, accounting officer of the hospital, the amount of user fee collected from August 1 to November 28, 2022 is Tk 5.13 crore of which the amount of money deposited in the government treasury through treasury challan is TK 2.54 lakhs.
Out of this, 3 lakh 84 thousand 690 taka have been returned as the patients did not undergo various tests.
The hospital authorities said in their complaint that on November 28, the bank balance was TK 21.57 . Thus total (TK2,34,02,898 + TK3,84,690 + TK21,57,659) = TK2,59, 45,247 amount of deposits is obtained.
Accused Abdus Satter Mia misappropriated the balance TK2.54 crore without depositing it in the bank account of the hospital or in the government treasury.
The hospital authorities also said that he had confessed to the crime committed at the hospital on November 30.