The agency has also claimed that there was under-deployment of around 50 per cent of staff at the Dahisar Jumbo Covid-19 centre, leading to a heavy workload on medical staffers attending to the patients during the pandemic.
Businessman Sujit Patkar played a "key role" in the allotment of a civic contract to his partnership firm for running jumbo COVID-19 centres in Mumbai, the Enforcement Directorate said in its chargesheet.
According to the ED, LHMS was incorporated with a mere investment of Rs 12,500, received Rs 31.84 crores from the BMC for supply of medical staff to covid centres. The probe found that 50-60 percent of the medical staff, including doctors and paramedics, were non-existent.
The chargesheet against the associate of Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut was submitted before the court s registry and it will come up before the special judge for cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act after scrutiny of papers.