Police have arrested an accountant for the alleged fraudulent transfer of 1.2billion shillings from the ministry of health account to an unknown account in ABC Capital Bank purported to belong to the National Medical Stores.

Police alleges that, Alex Gumisiriza an accountant attached to the Global Fund Programme forged paper work on how the funds were to be moved from one account to the other.

The suspect denies the charges, claiming that a top official from the Ministry instructed him to set out a work plan of how the funds could be channeled without notice.

He says that he was put under a lot of pressure by an official from the Ministry to speed up the paper work for the funds to be transferred.

The payments were purportedly for services rendered by the National Medical Stores, handling fees for medicines and pharmaceutical products under the Uganda Global Fund Programme.

The funds were to be moved from an account in Bank of Uganda to an account opened in ABC Capital Bank, as part of payment for drugs delivered by National medical stores to the Malaria Control Programme.