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Filing Cases Against Corrupt NEA Officials And Chinese Company Officials In Nepal
By KTM metro Reporter
August 26, 2013: Commission on Investigation into Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed cases against 22 Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) officials and four Nepalese suppliers and three Chinese company officials involved in supplying low standard transformers to Nepal at the Special Court demanding 1.33 billion rupees as compensations and fines from the indicted officials, and 10-year jail terms for them, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
Officials of the NEA involved in the irregularities in the purchase of transformers are former executive director Dr Jibendra Jha, current Executive Director Rameshwar Yadav, former Acting Executive Director Tikaram BC, former General Manager Chiranjivi Sharma Paudel, Deputy Director Haris Bahadur Pal, Account Officers Suresh Kumar Katuwal, and Sushil Prasad Khanal, Manager Shandu Yadav, Assistant Manager Surendra Prasad Paneru and Manager Shekhar Kumar Dutt, Manager Surendra Raj Joshi, Manager Kailash Prasad Atal, central store chief and Engineer Narayan Prasad Chaudhary and store assistant Saroj Shrestha, and also, Mahesh Prasad Acharya, Dev Sharma Paudel, Krishna Bahadur Thapa, Krishna Bahadur KC, Bharat Rupakhet, Pramod Rijal, Madan Raj Chapagain and Prajwal Pandey.
Supplier company officials involved are Li Dao Gu, chairman of Huwei Sunlight Electric Company Limited China, and the company’s authorized representative Zou Yi Tian, General Manager Hu Zheng Qiang and Nepal´s local representative Amar Rajbhandari.
NEA had purchased the transformers worth more than five billion rupees through the global tender calls. The Chinese company had secured the bids for supply of the transformers. The company had provided NEA with the transformers with the aluminum cables instead of copper causing frequently blow up and high leakage of electricity. Consequently, NEA has to bear a tremendous loss.
