Report on $632m drugs purchase submitted without input of PPC member who led investigative work

Sukrishnalall Pasha

The report of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) on the $632m drug purchase scandal was submitted to Parliament without the input of Sukrishnalall Pasha, the member who had led the investigative work into the matter.

Amid the controversy over the report, the PPC recently scrambled to formulate rules barring its commissioners from speaking publicly and Pasha has been threatened about breaching confidentiality clauses if he releases a minority report into the drug procurement, sources say.

“He is facing the fire there that if he submits it that means that he broke the contract pertaining to confidentiality and all that foolishness. He is being threatened that it could mean that he could lose the commissioner job…,” one source said.

“But his placement there is a