QUETTA: An accountability court on Wednesday sentenced official in char­­ge of medicine store at Bolan Medical Complex Hospital, Ahsan Tabas­sum, to seven-year rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs12 million for embezzlement of medicines worth millions of rupees.

Judge Aftab Ahmed Lone of the accountability court pronounced the verdict. The National Accou­nt­ability Bureau, Balochis­tan, had filed a reference in the accountability court against the official in char­­ge of medicine store and the record keeper after com­­pleting investigation into the misappropriation of me­­dicines in Bolan Medi­cal Complex Hospital, Quetta.

It emerged during the investigation that medicines supplied to the BMC Hospital disappeared from the store without their entry into the system.

Published in Dawn, April 21st, 2022

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