HTML clipboardWestmont Power (Bangladesh) Ltd, accused of forgery in its power plant capacity and money laundering, has offered a third-party independent test to determine its plant capacity, reports UNB.

There is an allegation that the Malaysian-based company has fraudulently inflated its capacity to 90 MW from its actual capacity of 60 MW.

A Joint Forces team, led by Army, reportedly identified the forgery in a recent capacity test in Westmont''s Baghabari Biyoyer Alo plant.

The team also found that the Westmont in connivance with a group of unscrupulous officials of the Power Development Board (PDB) prepared bills on the basis of the inflated generation capacity and received Tk 324 crore from the government in excess electricity bills.

A number of national dailies have already run stories on the allegations against the Westmont Power. Refuting the allegations, Westmont issued a statement urging the authorities to form an independent expert team to launch an investigation into the reported allegations. The statement, signed by its lawyer Barrister Abdullah Al-Mamun, said Westmont is now injecting more than 85 MW of power to the national grid.

"The allegation brought against the plant that it is generating only 60.7 MW of power is absurd and cannot be relied upon and we''re open for any form of enquiry and verification of the present generation of capacity of the power plant," the statement said.

It said the yearly capacity test of the machine is conducted as per terms of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) within one month of major overhaul of the machines as per the operating procedures set out by the equipment manufacturer. "It''s impossible for any form of irregularity during the capacity test as all the readings are recorded by the machine," it added.

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