In a chage sheet by the Andhra Pradesh Police’s Crime Investigation Department, Telugu Desam Party chief N Chanrababu Naidu has been identified as the principal culprit in relation to the Rs 114 crore AP Fibernet Scam case. The charge sheet was submitted to the Vijayawada ACP Court on Friday.
In addition to Naidu, the two accused individuals mentioned by the CID were K Sambasiva Rao, an IRTS officer, and V Hari Krishan Prasad, managing director of Net India, Hyderabad.
The department of energy, infrastructure, and investments was under the purview of Naidu, who was the chief minister at the time. According to a statement from the CID, he personally suggested that the fiber-net project be carried out. It claimed that a favored business was given a work order for Rs 330 crore for Phase I of the AP Fibernet Project through manipulation of the tender procedure.
The matter pertaining to purported tender rigging transpired between 2014 and 2019, during the previous TDP administration. The CID added that a number of purported irregularities occurred, from the awarding of the proposal to the completion of the entire project, costing the exchequer a significant amount of money.
According to CID Chargehseet, Naidu authorized the Fibernet project’s estimate without taking into account the fact that no market research was conducted to determine the item pricing or the standards that would need to be adhered to. The CID reported that among other irregularities, the former Chief Minister had allegedly put pressure on high-ranking government officials to include Hari Krishan Parsad in multiple tender evaluation committees, remove Tera Software Pvt. Ltd. from the blacklist, and ultimately award the tender to the same company.
The CID’s chargesheet also made it clear that the defendants utilized fictitious invoices to allegedly pay their pals.
According to the AP CID chargesheet, N. Chandrababu Naidu allegedly pushed officials to support M/s Terasoftware Pvt Ltd. and authorized the fiber net project estimates without first performing a market survey. According to the AP CID chargesheet, N. Chandrababu Naidu accepted the fiber net project’s estimates despite the lack of a market survey regarding the item pricing or the standards that were to be adhered to. Senior government officials were pressured by N. Chandrababu Naidu to include Vemuri Harkrishan Prasad in various tender evaluation committees, to reverse the government’s blacklist of M/s Terasoftware Pvt Ltd to win the tender against M/s Pace Power, and to ultimately award M/s Terasoftware Pvt Ltd by sifting protests from other bidders.
