Government yesterday filed a lawsuit against specialty hospital contractor Surendra Engineering for breach of contract and fraud and is seeking damages to the tune of $100M and the recovery of US$4.2M ($865M) in advance payments for the project.
“The defendant failed to perform their obligations under the terms of the contract and to account for the advance payment of US$4,285,440.00…. Instead, the defendant submitted fabricated, unsigned and sometimes inflated invoices with no evidence of actual payments made or to support the expenditure claimed,” Attorney General Anil Nandlall charges in the statement of claim for the action, which was filed yesterday in the High Court.
The matter is scheduled to be heard on December 3rd of this year in
