Surendra Engineering Company Limited (SECL) yesterday rejected charges of fraud as baseless, while accusing the Donald Ramotar administration of seeking to back out of its commitments to the US$18M specialty hospital project after being responsible for the stoppage of work.
Addressing the 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 yesterday also said the company is entitled to recover several million US dollars from the government for the work done at the site so far.
On Tuesday, the administration revealed that since late June of this year it has been engaging SECL on a