Another multi million rupee secret deal of purchasing 200,000 numbers of 4G LTE( Long-Term Evolution) phones from a Chinese company causing a massive loss to Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) on the directions company chairman PG Kumarasinghe Sirisena has been revealed by SLT trade unions.
Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals,
An order was placed by the top officials of the SLT hurriedly on the directions of Kumarasinghe Sirisena spending his last days at the helm of the telecom giant forcibly for the purchase of 200,000 4G LTE phones from China’s Shenzhen Tozed technologies Co., Ltd, trade union leaders disclosed.
They noted that around 25,000 buyers of 50,000phones of this Chinese firm sold by SLT have returned their phones to the company in an earlier occasion citing various defects.
But the SLT top management headed by Kumarasinghe Sirisena has not taken any action to black list the Chinese company.
SLT employees alleged that the placing an order with the same company to purchase 200,000 phones was serious corrupt practice. This procurement was under the tender No F/007/2018.
The new government has requested Kumarasinghe Sirisena to step don from the chairmanship of the SLT But he is forcibly holding on to the post ignoring Finance Ministry directive.
He has ordered the top officials of the SLT to procure these 4GLTE phones by back dating the deal from the Chinese company which is owned by a friend of him without any board approval. SLT trade unions alleged.
It has been revealed that the SLT chairman has met the representatives of te Chinese company in Spain a few weeks before the presidential election. .
(LI)