Confident that the documents submitted by Surendra Engineering Company Limited (SECL) for the specialty hospital contract are bogus, government has asked the Guyana Police Force to begin criminal investigations.

“We have handed over to the Police Commission-er, on behalf of the Government of Guyana, the documents and the confirmation from the Central Bank of Trinidad with the request to launch an investigation,” Attorney General Anil Nandlall yesterday told Stabroek News.

Addressing an announcement by the government of its intention to terminate the hospital project contract and pursue legal action to recover public funds paid over to the company, SECL’s Manag-ing Director Brijen Parikh, in a statement on Thursday, rejected the allegations as baseless.

Anil Nandlall

The company also accused the Donald Ramotar administration of seeking to back out of its commitments to the US$18M specialty hospital project and being responsible for the stoppage of work. The row between the two is a major embarrassment to the PPP/C government as both the Jagdeo and Ramotar administrations had been accused of favouring Surendra for high-profile contracts.

On Tuesday, the administration revealed that since late June of this year it has been engaging SECL on a number of issues relating to allegations of fraud and financial irregularities.