Kathmandu- The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed another corruption case against Sunil Poudel, former Managing Director of Nepal Telecom and then Executive Director of the National Information Technology Center, on charges of accepting bribe by supplying goods in collusion with a contractor company.

The charge sheet of the authority states that Poudel, the then Executive Director of the center, prepared the bid in collusion and even accepted the proposal for the procurement of supply, delivery, and installation of security appliances and network equipment called for in the fiscal year 2074/75, and that he accepted a bribe of Rs 30 million, 850 thousand, 400 while purchasing goods worth Rs 124 million, 280 thousand. The CIAA has also made Deepak Anand, the owner of the supplier company Actors Computers Nepal Pvt. Ltd., a defendant.

The charge sheet states that the bribe was received in bank accounts in the US, Singapore, and India. The Commission has filed a case after analyzing the technical tests conducted on the mobile and laptop recovered from Poudel and verifying the conversations regarding the house setting and bribery transactions from the beginning. There was a series of conversations between them on WhatsApp and email regarding this. The Commission has also filed a case based on that as evidence.

Corruption cases have been filed against Poudel, who is currently in Dillibazaar Jail. He has even been found guilty in some cases.