Public health experts and some government officials have suspected foul play in the purported deal between Russian Direct Investment Fund and a private Nepali firm to supply the Russian vaccine for the coronavirus to Nepal.

Reports on Tuesday suggested that Russian Direct Investment Fund, Russia's sovereign wealth fund, would supply 25 million doses of its potential Covid-19 vaccine to Nepal through Trinity Pharmaceuticals.

“It looks like some government officials’ ploy to help a private company benefit,” an official at the Department of Health Services told the Post requesting anonymity because he feared retribution. “It reminds of an earlier deal in which the government had asked Omni Business Corporate International Pvt Ltd to import medical equipment to fight the pandemic.”

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