Dera Ghazi Khan: Embezzlement of Government Medicines Worth Millions, CEO Health Suspended, Sources Reveal
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00:00In Dera Ghazi Khan, the CEO of Health has been arrested for smuggling government supplies worth crores of rupees.
00:07Bureau Chief Yasir Sheikh is with us. Please let us know, Yasir.
00:11The Punjab case is a major case in which a series of arrests have been going on for the past few days.
00:17Government supplies worth crores of rupees were being smuggled from different centres in Peshawar, Quetta and other areas of Baluchistan.
00:27The network was seized and a FIR was filed.
00:30The case is being investigated further.
00:33The Punjab court has ordered the arrest of the CEO of Health, Dr. Adrish Lagari, District Inspector, Faisal Mehmood, Secretary of Drug Quality Control, Asif Abbas,
00:46and District Coordinator of Health, Dr. Tahseen.
00:49They have also ordered the complete report of the case in Punjab and Lahore.
00:54The case is being investigated further by the eight employees who were arrested in the past few days.
01:02The charges against the arrested have been filed.
01:05The situation is being developed inappropriately and the management is being held accountable.
01:10In Dera Ghazi Khan, the CEO of Health has been arrested for smuggling government supplies worth crores of rupees.
01:18Bureau Chief Yasir Sheikh is with us. Please let us know, Yasir.
01:21Mahidol Mehkma, Punjab have undertaken a case in which daily charges of money worth crores of rupees were being smuggled from different centres in Peshawar, Quetta and other areas of Baluchistan.
01:35A network was seized and a FIR was filed.
01:40So, in this, there has been further progress that Magma Health, in Punjab, while carrying out the investigation,
01:46CO Health, Dr. Adrish Laghari, District Inspector Faisal Mehmood, Secretary Drug Quality Control Asif Abbas,
01:55and District Coordinator, Health Department Dr. Tahseen, have issued orders to arrest him,
02:00and have ordered him to report to Punjab and Lahore.
02:03And along with that, 8 of the employees who were arrested, who were part of this entire network,
02:10further investigations are being carried out against them.
02:12The charges that have been laid against the detainees,
02:14they have been accused of developing inappropriate situations and not keeping management.
02:19Thank you, Yasir.