DNCC sues Marshal Agrovat over BTI purchase anomalies
Dhaka North City Corporation has filed a case against Marshal Agrovat Chemical Industries Ltd for not importing BTI pesticide as per the purchase contract.
The case was lodged with the Gulshan Police Station tonight, DNCC spokesperson Mokbul Hossain told The Daily Star.
BTI is used to eliminate larvae of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, carriers of dengue virus.
DNCC had blacklisted Marshal Agrovat and cancelled its purchase order with the company for importing Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI) for breaching the contract.
The corporation had formed a three-member committee, led by Additional Chief Engineer Mohammad Sharif Uddin, to investigate the matter.
It has been found that Marshal Agrovat did not import BTI pesticide from Singapore as it had claimed.
Instead, it imported the product from a Chinese company called Shandong Ganon Agrochemical, according to customs documents, although tender documents clearly say the BTI must be imported either from the US, EU countries, Singapore, India, and Malaysia.
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