The ministry issued the instruction -- second in two weeks -- on Friday after the management continued to show apathy to recover $750,000 paid as lock up money to Airbus. [break]
The letter, which is addressed to general manager K B Limbu, directs the NAC management to do the needful in recovering the lock up money by following the procedure as specified by the aircraft manufacturer.
After coming to know about the letter, NAC employees protested acting general manager O B Gurung and other high ranking officials on Friday, pressing them to take the initiative to recover the lock up money.
Addressing the employees, Gurung assured that he would take appropriate step by Monday.
Earlier, Limbu had consulted Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on whether or not he could initiate the process to recover the lock up money, as the NAC-Airbus deal is under the CIAA´s investigation.
The constitutional anti-graft body has filed a charge sheet against the then chairman Sugat Ratna Kansakar and five other officials for sending non-refundable money to Airbus without following the Public Procurement Act.
“We suspect some political game behind the delay,” Tarani Dahal, president of NAC Employees´ Association, said, adding that it should not have taken this long just to forward NAC´s bank account number.
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