Former Law Secretary Gyawali was also dragged into the Teramox case

According to research sources, the Abuse of Authority Investigation Commission has already taken a statement from Gyawali on the allegation that he was involved in the decision to buy Teramox equipment illegally. Before that, the law deputy secretary level officer was involved in the authority board meeting, and joint secretary Gyawali was appointed to that position.

At that time, the Prime Minister was Baburam Bhattarai. Later, an electoral government was formed under the leadership of Chief Justice Khilraj Regmi. Joint Secretary Gyawali was also a member of the board of directors of the authority in the government formed after the election under the leadership of Sushil Koirala, KP Sharma Oli, Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Sher Bahadur Deuba.

'It is good for him (Gyawali) to stay in whatever government comes,' says a former administrator who is familiar with the Teramox case. The ex-administrator claims that Gyawali insisted on making very self-motivated decisions even in other regular tasks of the authority.

The Authority has in this case the then Communications Ministers Mohan Bahadur Basnet and Gyanendra Bahadur Karki, the then Communications Secretary Vaikunth Aryal who is currently the Chief Secretary, the then Communications Secretary Mahendraman Gurung who is now the Chief Commissioner of the National Information Commission, the Secretary of the Natural Resources and Finance Commission Vinod Prakash Singh, the then Chairman of the Authority Digambar Jha. And Purushottam Khanal is researching the above. During the

investigation, it was discovered that Gyawali was involved in the decision-making process when he was appointed as a member of the board of directors. "He is also under investigation after being involved in the decision to buy Teramox technology contrary to the Supreme Court's order," the authority source said He was a member of the Telecommunication Authority Board of Directors from November 2069 to November 2074 while being the joint secretary of the Ministry of Law. When the decision was made to buy Terramax equipment, officials and employees including Communications Minister Basnet, Communications Secretary Gurung, Authority Chairman Jha and Board of Directors member Gyawali were present. Under the pretext of regulating phone/calls coming from abroad and stopping revenue evasion through illegal call bypass, installation of "Traffic Monitoring and Fraud Control System" of Teramox technology was advanced during the time of Planning Minister Basnet. This decision was contrary to the judgment of the Supreme Court.

The bench of the then Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha and Judge Devendra Gopal Shrestha ruled on 21st January 2072 in a petition filed with the demand to protect the personal privacy of the citizens that they cannot monitor and control the phone/calls, SMS, etc.

The authority board meeting held on October 1, 2074 approved the cost of 3 billion 25 million and started the procurement process. Based on that, the authority started the consultant selection process on October 20, 2074. For this, approval was given by Secretary Gurung and Minister Basnet on October 17. Jha was the chairman of the authority when the tender work was carried out by the authority. In the tender process, 16 companies including SGS SS Geneva, TKC Telecom Inc. Canada and Nsoft Ltd. Hong Kong, along with Venrise Solutions, which has an office in Lebanon, were competing.

Since the tender provisions were set in the setting to be favorable for certain companies, Venraj was selected from the shortlist and awarded the contract for 237 million 70 thousand US dollars. While in the competition, TKC of Hong Kong offered less than 15 million dollars. However, the authority had instructed to cancel the contract process on suspicion of irregularities.

Then later on 29th Baisakh 2076, the authority canceled the process of awarding the contract to Venrise. Venrise went to court after the contract was canceled by the authority's order. On May 14, 2078, the bench of the then Chief Justice Cholendra Shamsher Jabra and Judge Kumar Chudal gave an order to proceed with the contract from Venrise. After that, the contract process was continued again.

In order to bring equipment worth 3.5 billion in 2 phases, a contract was signed with Venrise, which is registered in Cyprus and has an office in Lebanon. Tribhuvan International Airport Customs Office intercepted the goods and investigated after it was found that the imported equipment had an unreasonable price. Among the mentioned devices, Teramox technology, 2 laptops were priced at 50,000 USD each. It is mentioned in the technical inspection report conducted by customs that the goods called servers are only networking switches. 109 devices called servers are shown at USD 79,900 each.

After seeing the mood in it, the authority entrusted the equipment to the authority by keeping a guarantee of about 32 million rupees.