Government Halts Corruption Case Against Former National Information Technology Center Executive Director and Five Others

Kathmandu. The corruption case against six individuals, including the former Executive Director of the National Information Technology Center, Sunil Poudel, has been postponed by the government side. The corruption case was scheduled for hearing in the bench of Special Court Chairman Sudarshan Bhatta and Hemanta Rawal.

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) had filed a corruption case against the former Executive Director of the IT Center and five others, accusing them of causing a loss of NPR 158.85 million to the state by colluding in the procurement of 'High Compute Infrastructure' for the center and supplying substandard materials.

The CIAA had filed corruption charges against Poudel, along with former Director Safal Shrestha, Assistant Director Ramesh Pokhrel, Computer Engineer Ramsharan Gayak, Accounts Officer Nimbahadur Wali, and Arun Shrestha, Chairman of World Distribution Nepal. 

Poudel and others are accused of corruption by installing processors with lower specifications than those mentioned in the specifications published by the center in the fiscal year 076/77 through the tender process.