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The Union Health Ministry has filed a complaint with the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) that at least ₹2.5 crore has been siphoned off from it coffers.
According to EOW officials, the fraudster created a fake ID to divert funds meant for health programmes to different account numbers. The transactions have been traced to Assam.
A Ministry official had reported not receiving money for a scheme, which led to an investigation by an internal audit committee. The committee concluded that the money had landed in certain unknown accounts.
The complaint was filed on Thursday. A case has been registered under IPC Sections 420 (cheating) and 409 (criminal breach of trust by a public servant). “The payment systems of the Ministry are centralised. But transactions can occur from remote locations. We suspect that someone who knows the internal system well has compromised them,” an EOW official told BusinessLine.
Some officials fear the fraud could be of a higher order, considering that the Ministry transacts business of ₹52,800 crore annually and a chunk of this gets transferred to States for various schemes.
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