Health worker sent to jail for embezzling Tk 2.58 crore

A Khulna court sent health worker Prakash Kumar Das to jail yesterday in a case filed for embezzling Tk 2.58 crore from corona sample test fees of foreigners at Khulna 250-bed General Hospital (Sadar).

ACC filed a case against technologist Prakash on November 18. According to the case statement, Prakash collected a fee of Tk 4.24 crore from the Covid tests from July 2020 to July 2021. But he deposited Tk 166 crore in the government treasury.