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A corruption case has been filed against 16 individuals and two companies, including Congress MP Mohan Bahadur Basnet and former Law Secretary Dhanraj Gyawali, in the scam of purchasing Terramax technology equipment for the Nepal Telecommunication Authority.
The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority has filed a case against 16 individuals and two companies in a special court on Thursday with claims of more than 3 billion 21 crores.
Similarly, a corruption case has been filed against the then chairpersons of the Telecommunications Authority, Digambar Jha and Purushottam Khanal, then members of the Authority, Dhanraj Gyawali and Tika Prasad Upreti, Directors of the Authority, Vijaykumar Rai, Surendralal Hada and Dipesh Acharya, Deputy Directors, Revathiram Panth, Suresh Basnet, Harinya Prasad Bastakoti, Achutanand Mishra and Sanjeev Adhikari, the spokesperson of the Authority, Rajendra Kumar Poudel. gave .
According to him, a corruption case has been filed against the consultant Vanrise Solutions (SAL Offshore) and the CEO of that company Jamal Anauti, the local agent Connection Trade Link Private Limited and its chairman Dilip Kumar Gurung and director Tej Prasad Kharel for misusing state property and causing damage.
The authority has concluded that there is no need to prosecute Congress's Gyanendra Bahadur Karki and UML's Gokul Baskota and former chief secretary Vaikunth Aryal. In March, the authority canceled the process.
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.
On October 22, the then secretary of communication Aryal wrote an opinion to spend the amount of rural telecommunication fund saying that Teramax is necessary for Nepal. "As there is no budget allocation in the Nepal Telecommunication Authority in the current year, I have submitted for a decision to agree to arrange international call monitoring and call fraud (Teramax) by arranging a supplementary budget,"
said. Based on this decision, an agreement was reached to buy equipment worth 3.5 billion from Venrise. A decision was made to purchase equipment through over-invoicing and fraudulently spending another fund on a plan that was not included in the annual budget.
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.
Similarly, the price of a typical networking switch, called a server, was shown at 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 additional goods worth about two billion was stopped.
On the basis of the customs letter, the authority started the investigation, the then communications ministers Basnet and Karki, the two communications secretaries Gurung and Aryal, the then two presidents of the authority Digambar Jha and Purushottam Khanal were dragged into the investigation.
The authority entrusted the Cypriot cell company Venrise Solutions to install equipment for the traffic monitoring and fraud control system, according to which 199 servers, 2 laptops and 8 mobile sets were brought through Lebanon on August 21. The purchase price of these goods was 88 lakh 12 thousand 886 US dollars (1 billion 1482 million 30 thousand 916 rupees according to Tuesday's exchange rate).
This is the charge sheet filed by the authority
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