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A corruption case has been registered against 5 people including the then Executive Director Sunil Paudel for alleged irregularities in the purchase of equipment of the National Information Technology Center. The Abuse of Authority Investigation Commission on Monday filed a corruption case against Paudel along with the then assistant director Ramesh Pokharel, computer engineer Ramsharan Gaik, accounting officer Nim Bahadur Wali and Max International Pvt Ltd and its CEO Akbar Hussain.
A demand has been made against Poudel to pay 50.79 million rupees, imprisonment and fine, and recovery of embezzlement. Imprisonment and fine have been demanded against the then assistant director Pokharel and computer engineer Gaik as well.
Accounts officer Wali and Max International CEO Hussain have also been demanded to be imprisoned and fined and embezzled for the same offence. While purchasing equipment for the financial year 2075/076, it has been charged that they worked without preparing a public procurement plan, agreed to submit the price in detail to match the approved technical evaluation with the cost estimate, and did not purchase at a lump sum rate without making a cost estimate.
Paudel, who was made a defendant, has been found guilty by a special court for the last time a case was filed by the authority in the center's technology procurement case. When the case was filed, he was the managing director of Nepal Telecom, and he has been found guilty for the crime of illegal acquisition of wealth, illegal opening of accounts and keeping money abroad. He is now He is in jail after the verdict of the special court.
