Yesterday, Tuesday, the Public Prosecution ordered to detent the Minister of Health of the National Unity Government, “Ali Al-Zanati,” and the Undersecretary, “Samir Koko,” to investigate several charges, including supplying oxygen generating units at ten times their price.
The Public Prosecution Office explained that the Chief Public Prosecutor initiated investigation procedures into the financial violations found by the Accounting Bureau employees regarding the implementation of the development budget allocated to the health sector. They were questioned regarding the non-observance of the administrative contracts regulation in the sector’s contracts and the reluctance to adhere to the standards for the use of contracting tools, in particular their carrying out the work of supplying oxygen generating units with an increase in price that reached 1000,% of the selling price in the market.
He added that the Public Prosecution questioned them also about contracting by direct assignment to carry out some works after the date of their receipt from the competent department and contracting by direct assignment with companies newly established a few months ago, despite their lack of financial solvency and sufficient experience to carry out the contracted works, pointing out that the Public Prosecution Attorney ended up ordering their pretrial detention pending the case when there was sufficient evidence that they had committed the reality attributed to them.