ISLAMABAD: It was disclosed that Arshad Butt, a junior clerk at Lahore’s Services Hospital, has been revealed as a millionaire.
The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) initiated an investigation into Arshad Butt, who also serves as the Punjab Paramedical Staff Association President. He had secured a position as a junior clerk – Grade IV government employee – at Services Hospital Lahore using fraudulent degrees.
The investigation brought to light that despite receiving a monthly salary of Rs57,000, the junior clerk has amassed considerable wealth. ACE investigators obtained records spanning five years concerning the accused.
Over the course of eight months, transactions amounting to Rs11 million were deposited into his bank account. Additionally, he possesses 18 kanal and 18 marlas commercial properties and two houses registered under his wife’s ownership.
Further revelations unveiled that Arshad Butt established a private laboratory near Services Hospital in the Shadman area. An individual named Abdus Samad, a government hospital employee was tasked with transporting patients to Butt’s private lab for sample collection. Subsequently, the samples were examined at the government’s expense in the Services Hospital laboratory.
Earlier, the Punjab Paramedical Staff Association president was apprehended by the ACE following the registration of a corruption case against him.
Furthermore, the government employee is facing allegations of favoring particular individuals in various hospital departments.
The investigation exposed that Butt had counterfeit stamps of the hospital’s medical superintendent (MS) and Deputy MS. Additionally, he had been receiving substantial bribes from numerous chronically absent workers, deducted directly from their salaries despite their non-attendance.
Senior Special Judge Anti-Corruption Khalid Mehmood Bhatti had suspended the accused’s bail recently.
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