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In another case the CBI has registered a case against Ms K Sankar, a former senior divisional manager of National Insurance Company and Dr Ajoy Estebeiro of M/s Medicare Foundation for allegedly entering into criminal conspiracy and defrauding the company by making double payments to claims of individuals and also to fictitious claimants, said the sources.
Besides, the sources said that the CBI also have found that there was deficit of Rs 80 lakh from the premium collected during the tenure of Mr Sankar, spanning two years. The CBI is also reported to have found that Mr Sankar had collected air travel fare for 300 air trips he made, without proper documentation and fraudulently.
The sources also disclosed that Mr Sankar orally appointed M/s Medicare Foundation as third party administrator in 1998, though this scheme was put into effect by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority in April 2002.
In the meanwhile nearly 1,000 cases were underwritten by the National Insurance Company which also paid Rs 63 lakh to the 'claimants'. However, when a new senior divisional manager took over in 2001, he withheld payment of further claims made by the Medicare Foundation, said the sources, adding that claims were worth Rs 45 lakh.
The sources also disclosed that more than 50 per cent of the claims were from Esperanca Clinic, which is owned by Dr Estebeiro and that the claims were paid to Medicare Foundation and not to individual claimants.
The CBI also checked two petrol pumps, one at Mapusa and the other at Vasco for ensuring quality and quantity along with the sales personnel of petroleum companies. Samples of petroleum products have been taken by the checking team and sent for investigation.
PTI adds: The CBI today carried out nationwide raids at 92 places and registered 34 cases against 71 government officials and other persons, including an accounts officer of the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited from whom the agency allegedly recovered Rs 1.92 crore cash.
The raids were carried in pursuance of the vigilance week launched by the
CBI from today with an objective to target identified officers of doubtful integrity
and check corruption in areas directly affecting the public, the CBI director,
Mr U S Misra told reporters at a press conference.
The searches were conducted at Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Vishakapatnam, Chandigarh, Ranchi, Patna and Kochi during which the CBI seized huge amount of cash from various government officials, Mr Misra said.
In one such case, the CBI claimed to have recovered Rs 1.92 crore from senior accounts officer, Mr B Hasda of BSNL posted at Patna, he said.
During the special drive, the CBI also unearthed a racket of petrol and diesel adulteration in which the kingpin in the fake stamp paper case, Abdul Karim Telgi's involvement also surfaced, the CBI director said. -------------------------------------------------- The Navhind Times 11/3/04 page 6 --------------------------------------------------
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