Teramox had written an opinion to spend the amount of the fund saying that it was necessary
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Chief Secretary Baikunth Aryal, who is connected with Vikal Paudel, accused in the corruption case related to the purchase of equipment of the 'Security Printing Center', is also under investigation by the authority in the purchase of Terramax equipment. Although the Telecommunication Authority did not have a budget, the purchase process of Teramox technology was started by misusing the Rural Telecommunication Fund 700 million.
The authority canceled the process in March 2075 after the plan was made in 2074 for the purchase of Teramox technology, after TKC of Hong Kong, which offered 15 million dollars, Venrise of Lebanon, which offered 2337 million 70 thousand dollars, was selected.
In October 2078, when Sher Bahadur Deuba was the Prime Minister, Gyanendra Bahadur Karki was the Communications Minister and Aryal was the Communications Secretary, this plan was revived and the procurement process was started. But since this plan was not included in the annual budget, the Authority sought the approval of the Ministry to spend Rs 70 crore from the Rural Telecommunication Fund. The letter written by the authority says that ``a supplemental budget of 70 crore rupees for Teramox has been approved by the authority and sent to (the ministry) for approval.'' Immediately after the
, on October 22, Communications Secretary Aryal writes an opinion to spend the money of the Rural Telecommunication Fund saying that Teramax is necessary for Nepal. "Since there is no budget allocation in the current year in Nepal Telecommunication Authority, I have submitted for the decision to give consent to arrange international call monitoring and call fraud (Teramax) by arranging supplementary budget." were Based on this decision, an agreement was reached to buy equipment worth 3.5 billion from Venrise. The authority is investigating the fact that the funds of another fund were fraudulently spent on a plan that was not included in the annual budget and equipment was purchased through excessive invoicing.
In August 2079, according to the agreement to complete the work within 6 months, the equipment with a price of 1 billion 150 million was brought in. Questioning the price of these goods, the airport customs stopped the goods without passing the inspection. The price of 2 laptops brought in the name of Terramax was shown at 50 thousand US dollars each.
Financial transactions between Chief Secretary Aryal and corruption accused Vikal Poudel
Similarly, the price of common networking switches, such as servers, was shown to be 79,900 US dollars per unit. 109 items of this item have been brought. Customs concluded that the goods containing only wires without storage and processing units were mistaken for servers. Based on the report that the goods were brought by over-invoicing, the customs released the goods only after taking a bond of around 32 million rupees. Customs sent a letter to the Authority, Revenue and Money Laundering Investigation Department and National Bank on January 10, 2079, asking them to investigate the purchase and payment of Terramax equipment. After the equipment of the first phase was pulled for investigation, the supply of more goods worth about two billion has been stopped.
Based on the customs letter, the Authority has started the investigation in this overall case, the then Minister of Communications Basnet and Karki, the two Communications Secretaries Gurung and Aryal, the then 2 Chairman of the Authority Digambar Jha and Purushottam Khanal are under investigation.
