EDTL Kasa Funsiona, Komunidade Kasa La Hetan Naroman

Tempo Semanal - Ainaro 26/11/2012

Vice Primeiru Ministeru (PM)  Fernando Lasama ofesialmente inagura sub-estasaun Elitrisidade de Timor Leste (EDTL) loron sigunda-feira (26/11) dader san,  iha aldeia Lancadoi suku Kasa  distritu Ainaro hanesan progresu boot ida tanba komunidade Ainaro bele hetan naroman.

Ne’e duni, komunidade Kasa hahu husi ferik-katuas no joven foin sae inklui mos labarik kiik la tur nonok sira mos hakbesik an ba iha sermonia inagurasaun ba sub-estasaun EDTL iha suku kasa. Kuaze sira nakonu iha kadeira ne’ebe prepara sira okupa no balun hamrik hodi rona  lian menon ruma husi ulun boot governu  atu sira mos bele hetan naroman.

Hare ba elitrisidade ne’ebe lakan kalan no loron iha Ainaro fila durante loron rua halo komunidade suku Kasa kestiona kona ba destansia entre Kasa ho Ainoro. Suku Kasa besik ho sub-estasaun EDTL   to agora sedauk hala’o estalasaun oinsa mak sira bele hetan naroman husi  elitrisidade. Maibe, iha Ainaro fila hetan uluk enerjia.

Tuir komunidade Suku kasa Norberto da Costa hateten, sira sente kontente tebes tanba iha tempu badak nia laran elitrisidade bele tama iha suku Kasa no distritu Ainaro tomak.

“Ami sente triste uituan. Tanba, sub- estasaun EDTL besik iha suku kasa to agora estalasaun elitrisidade ba kada uma kain mos sedauk iha oinsa bele hetan naroman elitrisidade” tenik Norberto ba jornal Tempo Semanal bainhira partispa mos iha sermonia inagurasaun ne’e.

Norberto hatutan, sira hanesan komunidade Kasa ladun kontente tanba hare ba destansia sira besik liu sub-estasau EDTL to agora  sedauk hetan enerjia husi EDT . Maibe  daudauk ne’e,  iha  Ainaro fila lakan kalan no loron.

Ezijensia husi komunidade suku kasa Jornal Tempo Semanal hala’o   konfirmasaun ho Sekretariu Estadu EDTL Januari Pereira hateten, elitrisidade se to iha sira nia hela fatin tanba daudauk ne’e tekniku  ssira halao estudus iha tempu badak nia laran sei fo naroman ba distritu Ainaro tama.

“Ahi sei to ba sira. Tanba teniku sira sei mota hela iha fatin-fatin, la’os sira de’it maibe ba mos hatudu no Suai agora daudauk kompania sira halao  servisu no estudus. Ne’e duni, ita hein simu lakan deit” garante Sekretariu Estadus EDTL ba periode dala rua ne’e.

Nune’e mos Vice PM, Fernado Lasama  iha ninia diskursu husu ba komunidade Ainaro sira atu popa enerjia no uza eletrisidade  ho dixiplina .

Tuir observasaun husi korespondente Jornal Tempo Semanal katak, maioria uma kain ne’ebe iha aldeia lancadoi  suku Kasa distrittu Ainaro to agora sedauk hetan enerjia Elitrisidade .(**)

The Government chooses more expensive fuel fattening Sunshine whilst the public loses US$810,000.00.

Jacinto Alves: You should looking at me.

In the middle of the month of May 2009 the Fourth Constitutional Government was forced to terminate the fuel supply contract to the EDTL by the company Pualaka Petroleu after there was a clash between the three directors.

When the contract with the Company Sunshine ended, the government opened a public tender through its central procurement, which a number of companies competed for in the month of November 2009, and the company Sunshine continued to supply fuel to EDTL.

This tender process took some time, up to the time when the government announced to the public that the company ETO had won the tender. The other companies lodged protests and allegations of Collusion, Corruption and Nepotism emerged as well as concerns of a monopoly being created because the director of ETO is the nephew of the Prime Minister Xanana and he had also been awarded other project tenders by the government at the time.  As a result the government was forced to freeze the tender until now.

Consequently the government extended the contract with the company Sunshine up to 31/01/2010.  For the month of February until now into March it is still the company Sunshine that is supplying fuel to EDTL and the result of the tender is still not known.  As a result the total time duration in which Sunshine has been has now been supplying fuel to EDTL has been nine months with an original six-month contract that was merely extended from the end of December until the end of February.

FRETILIN MP Arsenio Paixao Bano from FRETILIN loudly questioned this contract extension through a telephone interview alleging that, “when a contract is amended but despite the price of fuel falling, they still continue with a higher price then this is theft of public moneys.”

According to invoices from Sunshine Petrol group number 53/SPG/P.O/RDTL dated December 2009 the company Sunshine supplied EDTL with fuel valued at US$00.953 whilst other importing companies like Pertamina sold fuel at between US$00.79 – US$00.80 and Atauro Oil sold fuel at US$00.78 per liter.

A comparison of the price between sunshine and Pertamina results in a difference of US$00.15 (fifteen US cents) and compared with Atauro Oil’s price that shows that the public loses US$00.17 (seventeen US cents) per liter.

This difference in prices shows that for the month of December the state lost US$450,000 that could have been saved and used for some schools instead of being wasted as Bano said.  On Monday last the FRETILIN parliamentary bench in the plenary of the national parliament questioned the condition of a school located at the foot of Mount Matebian, which was in a decrepit condition, insufficient rooms for all the students, in need of teachers, without a room for the staff and yet the state carelessly threw away US$450,000.

He alleged, “public funds were stolen because the price of fuel feel but the government carried on as normal.”  He added to his accusation that, “If the price fell and the government decided to pay the same price they had been paying, then that means stealing from the public purse.”

“If a tender has been held, but the contract is yet to be signed but is merely extended, then why hold the tender in the first place?” Bano questioned.

According to Bano, “this should not happen, this is maladministration. Who will take responsibility for facilitating this contract, these persons who did this are irresponsible, immoral, are not serious or responsible,” alleged Bano.

Arsenio said that on one hand the government spends money without properly calculating what it is spending but on the other hand the peoples’ living conditions is still very poor. “this is throwing money out aimlessly just in order to fatten up a few people,” he accused.

The Vice President of the most voted party who lost the opportunity to govern in 2007, thus becoming the major opposition party said that, “the problem with the government is that they do not have a plan, so they just throw money away aimlessly, just to fatten up some people.  Look at the schools many of which are in a state of disrepair and instead of repairing them they fatten up companies with contracts such as the type Sunshine was given.”

He said that if they calculate their spending properly then they will save a lot of money that they can use to pipe water to communities and fix quite a few schools in Dili and in rural areas including to better a lot of the irrigation schemes that are not currently functioning, instead of looking after companies who sell with a price that causes a lot of concern and doubt,” Bano said.

The MP followed up saying that according to the normal processes you cannot make more than one amendment for the same contract.  He explained that you could amend a contract once after a tender has been held and the winning bidder has been announced.

Responding to the concerns of Mr. Bano, Joao Martins who is the owner of Sunshine said that the government selected his company because of its superior service in the last nine months when it had faced problems with the previous supplier. “The government made this decision and I just followed them because I assumed the government acts in Timor’s interests,” Joao Martins told this newspaper during an interview at Hotel Timor on Thursday, 25 February 2010.

According to the invoice from Sunshine Petrol Group that was signed by its general manger Chian Choon Ning on 24/12/2009, which this newspaper was able to obtain, it was written on the front page and second page that the amount of fuel supplied to EDTL was 1,257,890 liters to generate electricity for 12 days in Dili, whereby the state paid US$1,198,768.17.  “Right now we calculate that more or less EDTL consumes 3.5 million liters per month,” said the Sunshine company proprietor Joao Martins.

Responding to questions regarding the price of Sunshine fuel being more expensive than the others Mr. Martins said, “When we compare the price of fuel we must compare apples with apples.” The reason it is more expensive than other fuel is that, “their (the other companies) fuel is light heavy fuel, or NGIO with 1.5% sulfur or 1% I don’t know, but Sunshine’s fuel is High Speed Diesel fuel with sulfur content 0.05% and this is superior quality from that of those who are claiming that this fuel is more expensively.”

He explained that regarding the price of fuel for the month of December, “If we compare from December till now, the price of fuel pre barrel rose to US$80.00, so for this very reason we have to look at the fact that this fuel comes from a premium refinery that is properly refined and therefore its quality of price is evaluated in this context.”

According to Joao Martins, “at the moment we calculate that EDTL consumes approximately 3.5 million liters per month.

He thanked the government for the confidence they had in him to work together with them in the electricity sector.  “I want to thank the Government for seeking stability in Timor and Sunshine will also makes its own efforts to ensure that the power stays on in Timor,” Joao closed.

According to documents obtained by this newspaper from the Office of the Secretary of State for Electricity, they show that the company Atauro Oil had already sent a quotation price for fuel for January and February 2010 to the relevant office.

“I want to present to you a price quotation for High Speed diesel for the current month of January (2010),” sated the quotation document from Atauro Oil Supply LDA.

This quotation presented a price for the fuel of US$00.77 (seventy seven US cents) per liter and Atauro quoted a price per liter for February of US$00.80.  This compares with the price quoted by Sunshine of US$00.893 per liter for the month of January, which is US$00.12 (twelve US cents) more expensive.

If the government had accepted the January quotation from Atauro it would have saved the public US$360,00.00. The government decision to buy fuel in December 2009 and January 2010 resulted in a total loss of US$810,000.00 to the public.

Atauro oil also presented other documents such as “certificate of quality” from Schutter Far East Sdn Bhd guaranteeing that Atauro Oil would be importing High Speed Diesel.  The director of Atauro Oil Mr. Lorenco declined to make any comments when this newspaper tried to confirm this with him because he did not wish to embroil himself in problems with other companies.

But MP Inacio Moreira condemned strongly the moneys misspent by the state arising from the calculations presented in this article.

“They have to do the mathematics on the funds allocated for fuel acquisition properly; they should not exaggerate the price of fuel; the price fluctuations in the world market should be taken into account.  I see that the company that is presently supplying fuel to the EDTL has an exaggerated price,” alleged Moreira.

“The government should select the company that sells fuel at the lower price so that the state budget benefits instead of buying more expensive fuel simply to enrich a company in which they have friends,” Moreira lamented.

He suspected that, “This was clearly a case of not doing the mathematical calculations but just deciding to go ahead, I suspect that this was intentional.”

The MP suggested that, “the government should have sought quotations from all companies that import fuel so as to evaluate which could supply the cheapest fuel.”

Moreira too said that the price at which Sunshine supplied fuel was “over the top”.  His reasons were that, “the world price fluctuations is usually between 70-80 cents per liter, so why is that the government decided to acquire fuel as high as 95 cents?  This needs to be investigated, as perhaps this did not involve a proper evaluation process but that was simply decided on.  I have my suspicions that this was intentional,” alleged the MP from the FRETILIN parliamentary bench.

“Such conduct that breaches the law or involving ill intent to just hand over benefits to one another cannot be permitted to go on,” said Moreira.

The MP suspects that there are many doubtful issues surrounding the process for supply of fuel.  “One thing for example, Sunshine has some relationship with a member of government; so from our point view it is like handing out favors to one another, with a price that we can see is inflated, because we can all see that the price fluctuation has gone from 70 cents but not beyond 80 cents.”

He said that for some time now the contracts for supplying fuel to EDTL has been given to family of members of the government, so he asks, “that there needs to be control exercised by the government to ensure that the fuel supply contracts are decided on a proper basis.  They should not be allowed to just pass on favors to one another, but there has to be a process according to the law because all Timorese businesses should have the opportunity to compete for these contracts because many have the capacity to fulfill the contracts with the EDTL,” Inacio declared.

EDTL staff also acknowledged that the price of fuel from Sunshine was more expensive and so on the 29th of January 2010 the Director General of EDTL Mac Maidens wrote letter reference number 018/DG/1/10 to Manuel Monteiro, director of Procurement at the Ministry of Finance stating,

“Based on the letter from the Secretary of State for Electricity, Water and Urbanization with reference number 10/SE-EAU/1/10, the EDTL national directorate wants to request that you decide on Atauro Oil Supply, and EDTL wishes to confirm that the price from the current supplier of the fuel to EDTL (Sunshine) is very high compared with what we have ascertained from the price of fuel in the market.  Thank you for our collaboration,” signed by Mac Maidens, which was also Ccd to the Minister for Infrastructure, the Secretary of State for Electricity and the director General of Financial Administration at the Ministry of Infrastructure.

According to another document from the Secretary of State for Electricity he acknowledged that fuel from other companies was better than Sunshine’s.

When this newspaper questioned the Secretary of State’s document ref. 10/SE-EAU/1/10 he pretended diplomatically saying, “The tender was not done here, but was done in Central Procurement, so I do not know and you have ask there.”

He explained with a curious face that, “The contract was done in the Ministry of Finance so ask there, because we just wait and receive. When it involves a contract for a large amount they advertise and evaluate, we only send our technical people to sit together to help them decide and we just comply with the decision that is made.”

When this newspaper tried to seek clarification from Francisco Soares he said that, “The issue is not the price, but it depends on the price in the international market which is always fluctuating.”

When asked why they had given the contract to Sunshine again Burlaku argued that, “because they had previously won the tender, that is the reason, they were still contracted because they had been through a process.”

It is interesting though that the shift from Pualaka to Sunshine has been described as a rotation as the director general of Sunshine himself said.

Francisco also explained a little regarding the tender that ETO had already won.  “Just wait for the government’s decision, because the government has not yet decided, so Sunshine will attend to our needs.”  Despite Mac Maidens having already stated that Sunshine’s fuel was more expensive Francisco Soares continued to maintain that it should be Sunshine.  The Secretary of State Januario Pereira has already proposed another company that sells cheaper fuel that will save public funds that are being squandered.

PM signs off on project for Minister’s husband TS Edisaun 149

PM signs off on project for Minister’s husband,

Soares: Why didn’t anyone complain when Mari signed?
Dili, Tempo Semanal

The murky waters of the dispute between kin inside the company Pualaka Petroleum Fuel Ltd has not just spilt over from Santacruz (the head office for Pualaka Petroleum Fuels) to the door of the Minister for Justice, but has spilt beyond into the Ministry of Finance right up the Government Palace to flood right up to the legs of the Prime Minister’s chair.

It happens that on the 19^th of September 2008, Prime Minister Gusmão signed the contract with Americo Lopes, for his company Pualaka Petroleum Fuel Ltd to supply fuel to EdTL (Electricity of Timor-Leste). Luckily, the case of the locked out Pualaka employees at Tibar Port, and the falsification of the company shareholding statutes, which put an end to the continued supply of fuel to EdTL, otherwise, Pualaka and its boastfulness would still be supplying fuel to EdTL despite the ongoing power cuts which keep Dili’s electricity blinking on and off. The legal procedures for the Prime Minister to sign the contract with the Justice Minister’s husband, was not as a consequence of the PM exercising his whim, but the duty and powers given by law to the PM to sign contracts, but which is affected by the provisions of article 3 of Law No. 7/2007 on Constitutional Officeholders, in that bit creates certain prohibitions with regards to certain companies.

Clause 1 of this law states that Companies whose capital belongs in a percentage over 10% to a person who holds the office at a constitutional body will be prohibited from entering tenders for the supplying of goods or services, as well as for the exercise of trade or industry activities, in contracts with the State and other entities.

Clause 2, line a) of the law states that Companies whose capital, in the same percentage, belongs to the spouse of the holder, when there is no separation of persons and assets, to their

ascendants and descendants in any degree and to collaterals up to the 2^nd degree, as well as the person who lives with the holder in a situation akin to marriage are also prohibited.

Line b) of clause 2, states that this also applies to Companies in which capital the holder of the office detains, directly or indirectly, alone or together with the relatives mentioned in the previous sub-paragraph a), hold a participation not below 10%.

Consequently, many now believe that there has been a breach of article 3 of Law No. 7/2004 because of the 10% limitation stipulated by the law, because Americo Lopes holds 30% of Pualaka. Though Americo Lopes is not an officeholder, but he is the husband of the Minister of Justice and has family links with the Prime Minister.

However, according to the Director General of State Finances, Francisco Soares, decree law 10/2005 was amended by a decree law in 2008 which sets out the tender process and who is empowered to approve contracts. He says that the Minister signs contracts valued at between five hundred thousand dollars to one million dollars, the PM signs contracts upwards of one million dollars and the director can sign for contracts five hundred thousand dollars and less, but that this is dependent on delegation of powers from the Minister. “We follow the rules,” Soares told this newspaper from the Ministry of Finance building , Thursday 03/07/2009.

However, FRETILIN MP Francisco Branco accused the Prime Minister of breaching the Constitutional Officeholders because he signed a contract in favour of a relative. Branco’s view is that the Prime Minister should delegate administrative power to the Minister of Finance to do this, so that the PM can have more time to better control his government’s activities. But some in civil society disagree saying that doing this will result in diminished power for the Prime Minister to properly control collusion, corruption and nepotism.

“The Prime Minister is the head of the government and has to be in a position to know all that is happening in the administration and to approve projects. It’s akin to a director of a company abrogating his or her power to authorize financial transactions to someone else. That would only be for a crazy director to do,” this civil society member said.

But Branco stressed that he was unhappy with the current situation because when the Prime Minister is the one to sign contracts, it facilitates more nepotism and closes off avenues for transparency and accountability. From Branco’s point of view the Prime Minister should delegate these powers because it is consistent with ensuring she has control over the budget and because the keys to the state’s coffers are already in her hands anyway. Branco accuse the Prime Minister of having interfered with the powers of others in his government by taking short cuts in signing the rice and fuel contracts, acts which did nothing to promote transparency and accountability in the public administration.

Soares says however that the Prime Minister signs contracts because the procurement law empowers him to do so. ‘The procurement law was enacted by FRETILIN, and under this law Pm Alkatiri previously signed contracts above one million dollars, as did the former Finance Minister Maria Madalena and the former Procurement Director Gregorio Sousa. So why are the opposition parties now questioning this law? It seems to me like perhaps they are not familiar with system which has been in place,” Soares said.

On another, Soares also mentioned that the UNTAET public finance law number 13/2001 was being reviewed and will be amended. Soares said that their work was based on principles of professionalism and integrity.

On the same occasion, when he spoke about why Americo Lopes won this tender, Soares explained that the Justice Minister’s husband winning the tender was political. The law must be changed if political questions result in a breach of the law. Only the council of ministers and the parliament can change the law, procurement only follows the laws that are approved by parliament and promulgated by the President of the Republic. “We don’t look at who bids in a tender, we only assess at their professionalism and integrity to complete the project. Because of this I always say that I am not concerned with whoever wants to take these things to court because I am ready to answer,” Soares said smiling.

But when responding to journalists regarding the law and the emergence of conflict of interest, the Director General explained that they are always careful avoid conflict of interest arising during a tender. “If my brother submits bid documents for a tender, then I cannot participate in the bid evaluation team so as to avoid a conflict of interest arising. But I cannot impede him from tendering because that is his right,” he spoke.

From the civil society perspective, Joazito Viana, General Manager of Luta Hamutuk thinks that this government has not yet been transparent in the way it manages tenders because it does not publish the selection process for companies that are awarded contracts for projects, such as how many companies compete in a tender and which are selected. Such a process can result in all sorts of speculation as to why companies miss out on selection. The government should rectify this by being transparent from the time a tender opens so that expectations do not build up from the companies that bid and avoid future public controversy. But because the government has failed to do this, then many problems have emerged such as with the rice contracts, Viana said. He elaborated saying that at present there is a lot of rice rotting away in warehouses, and not being distributed to the intended beneficiaries. Its these types of things that lead people to speculate that this government is promoting collusion, corruption and nepotism.

“We want to point out that right now we are seeing some increase in rice production in some districts because of the distribution of tractors through the economic stabilization fund, such as in the sub-district of Maliana in Bobonaro, where on Monday, 6 July 2009 there was a demonstration by farmers complaining that their production of nearly 400 tonnes of rice was rotting in the sub-district warehouse. We have to question what went wrong, because the government has been urging the farmers to increase production but at the same time it has entered into contracts with rice importers. This shows a lack of accountability by the government, especially in the tendering process.

So, we request the government to involve everyone in the bid selection process of companies who compete and to publish the name of the winning bidder, so as to avoid speculation and public questions that there has been family favoritism in the tender process,” Viana said.

Nevertheless, Viana defended the right for whomever to bid in tenders, whether they are the son or daughter of a minister or a brother or sister of the minister, because all citizens have equal rights. He added that according to the human rights convention and the convention on political, economic, social and cultural rights, all persons have equal access regardless of kinship. But such persons winning contracts for projects they bid on must ensure they complete the project with quality, because they qualified according to criteria set out in the bid conditions. But he also said it would be a better situation when the government created a mechanism to avoid family involvement in the tender process.

On the issue of the concern some have regarding the PM not delegating financial management powers to the Finance Minister, this member of civil society declared that this was this was one of the procedural issues that was not yet clear with the Ministry of Finance itself, because the Ministry of Finance only submits proposals to the Head of the Government for approval but does not sign contracts because the Ministry of finance also has the responsibility of preparing the contract through the procurement division.

“According to some documents that we have seen, the PM has signed some contracts, which he should not do. But in his capacity as Minister of Defence and Security he can sign contracts, not as PM. The PM only approves proposals submitted to him by the Ministry of Finance, with the Ministry of Finance acting like the master kitchen for smaller kitchens in smaller departments, managing the process right up to taking it to the PM for his approval,” Viana said.

On questions from journalists regarding the procurement law giving the PM power to sign contracts, Viana was clear in saying that he had power to sign international agreements. He pointed to a case where the PM did not have any power to sign, such as with the contracts with Conoco Phillips to explore, or when ENI won the blocks to explore for oil in the exclusive zone in the Timor Sea. These contracts with multinational companies for contracts valued at millions and millions of dollars, the PM does not have any power to sign.

As such whenever we speak of the PM signing for Pualaka Petroleum Fuel to supply fuel for EdTL with a contract price of US$1,473,360.00 (as is written in the contract document signed by Americo Lopes dated 3 July 2009), Vianan added that it shows that the PM did wrong because in signing with this company. Such a decision also points to an interference with the powers of others, because it should be procurement signing these contracts, after the PM has approved the proposal made by the Ministry of Finance for the contract. Viana suggests the government should change this system, the current procurement mechanism and procedures, otherwise one day the PM will also be signing for just one dollar.

On another matter, the Deputy Director of Luta Hamutuk, Edio Saldanha Borges said that law No &, article 3 of the law on Constitutional Officeholders already stipulates various prohibitions on companies in which they or their relatives to the second degree of kinship have a shareholding in excess of 10% to bid for state tenders. Because of this, if the PM signed a contract with the Minister’s husband with whom the PM has a family relationship with, then the PM has breached the law on constitutional Officeholders because a conflict of interest clearly arose when he signed the contract.

Therefore, Edio suggested that the authorities with the legal powers should act in relation to this case, but more than just sending it to the Provedor for Human Rights and Justice or an investigation by the Inspector General or by the Deputy PM for Administrative Affairs, but has to be sent to the Prosecutor General to formally proceed with an accusation so that everyone can see that the law was enacted to apply to everyone and not just to protect the high and mighty.

According to Edio, the way to curtail such conduct is for the National Parliament to use its oversight and monitoring powers to ensure that the government knows not to act beyond their powers.

“we should not treat this as case of ‘because it involves our big brother, we are all scared’. None of us want this. If someone breaks the law then we should not be afraid of correcting that, because it involves the peoples’ rights and nothing to do with it involving our ‘big brother’”, Edio stressed.

He added that when a leader commits a wrong then “we should look to whether the criminal code has been breached and whether it should be tried by the courts. The parliament can resolve political issues. But the Prosecutor general has to investigate if there is a criminal issue involved. This is how cases such as the Gleno Prison and the supply of uniforms for prison guards should be addressed, with prosecution to the end so that all can see that there is a commitment address this type of misconduct,” Edio suggested.

Tempo Semanal Edisaun 149

PM Asina Projetu ba Ministra Nia La'en

Soares: Tansa Mari Asina Ema Ida La Hakilar!

Dili, Tempo Semanál

Wee merak husi kazu kudeta saham entre primu irmaun iha kompañia Pualaka Petróleu Fuel Lda la'ós sulin de'it husi Santa Cruz ba odamatan boot Ministériu Justisa nian hodi nakfakar liu ba Ministériu Fin­a­n­s­as maibé nasulin liu ba Pallasu du Gov­e­r­nu hodi habokon mós kadeira ain Pri­m­e­i­ru Ministru nian.

Afinál, Primeiru Ministru Xanana Gus­m­­ão iha dia 19 de Setembru 2008 tuur ha­­m­utuk ho Américo Lopes hodi asina ti­ha dokumentu kontratu ida ba kompañia Pualaka Petróleu Fuel Lda atu fornese mina ba EdTL. Sorte, mosu kazu espulsa (pemecatan) ba staff kompañia Pualaka nian iha Portu Tibar no falsifikasaun ba dokumentus fahe saham, hodi trava tiha fornesimentu mina ba EdTL, se lae, Pu­a­l­aka ho ninia gaba-an fornese mina ba EdTL maski rotasaun ba kortés enerjia eletrisidade sei nafatin halo Dili sai Sidade lakan-mate. Prosedimentu legais ba PM atu asina kontratu ho Ministra Justisa nia la'en, la'ós produtu suplementu ida ne'ebé PM bele asina komforme PM nia fihir, ma­i­bé PM nia kompeténsia no podér atu asina ko­ntratu, hetan limite husi Lei Estatutu dus Ti­t­ulares Órgaun Soberanu, lei Nu. 7/2007, artigu 3 kona ba Impedimentu Apli­k­a­veis a Sosiedade.

Iha númeru 1 lei ne'e nian hateten, em­prezas sira ne'ebé nia kapitál kaer hu­si titulár órgaun soberania liu 10%, he­tan impedementu atu partisipa iha ko­n­k­u­r­su fornesimentu bens no servisu, halo kn­aar Komérsiu ka Indústria, liu husi ko­n­t­ratu ho estadu ho entidades publikas sira seluk.

Iha númeru 2 alínea a) lei ne'e nian ha­teten mós katak, emprezas sira ne'ebé nia kapitál ho persentajen hanesan, ne'ebé nian feen ka la'en maka sai na'in ka haketak ema ho riku soin nia aman/in­an no oan sira ho parentes kolatoral to'o 2 grau ho sira ne'ebé hela ho nia mós he­­tan impedementus. Iha alínea b) hat­e­ten, empreza sira ne'ebé nia kapitál/husi ti­tulár órgaun, direta ka indireta husi nia me­sak ka hamutuk ho familias ne'ebé re­f­ere iha alínea a), nia partisipasaun la ki'ik liu 10%.

Tanba ne'e, deskonfia mosu violasaun ba lei númeru 7 artigu 3 lei estatutu dus ti­tulares órgaun soberanu tanba lei ne'e fó limitasaun 10% maibé Américo Lopes iha saham 30%. Américo Lopes la'ós titulár ba órgaun ida nein membrus dó governu maibé Américo Lopes iha lig­a­s­a­u­n família ho PM Xanana tanba Américo nia feen mak Ministra Justisa Lúcia Lobato ne'ebé iha relasaun família ho PM Xanana hanesan kompadre ho komadre.

Maibé tuir Diretór Jerál Finansas du Es­tadu, Francisco Soares hateten, iha de­kr­etu lei númeru 10/2005 no mós ama­n­d­ament ba dekretu lei ne'e iha 2008, define ona kona ba prosesu tenderizasaun no de­fine mós kona ba see mak iha podér atu aprova kontratu. Tanba ne'e, lei define katak, husi kinentus mill to'o 1 millaun de do­lar Ministra mak asina, husi 1 millaun de dolar ba leten Primeiru Ministru mak asi­na, husi ki'ik to'o kinentus mill de dolar Di­retór sira mak asina, maibé tenke de­pende ba delegasaun poderes husi­ Ministra. "am­­i la'o tuir regra ida-ne'e", de­han So­a­r­e­s ba jornál ne'e iha ed­i­físiu Min­i­s­t­é­riu Finan­s­as, Kinta, 03/­07/2009.

M­aski nu­ne'e, Fr­a­­ncisco Branco h­u­s­i bankada Fr­etilín a­k­u­z­a katak, Pr­imeiru Mi­­nistru vi­o­la ona lei es­tatutu dus titulares ó­r­g­aun so­b­e­r­anu tanba asina kontratu ba nia família. Loloos, Branco hateten, Primeiru Ministru tenke fó podér administrativu ba Ministra Fi­n­a­nsa mak kaer atu nune'e Primeiru Mi­n­i­stru iha kbiit no tempu atu kontrola sistema governasaun. Maibé tuir sosiedade sivíl balu hateten katak, bainhira Primeiru Mi­n­istru fó tomak podér administrativu ba Mi­nistra Finansas entaun Primeiru Mi­n­istru labele kontrola didi'ak indikasaun­ no abuzu KKN.

"Primeiru Ministru hanesan top lider iha pozisaun governu nian, tanba ne'e hanesan ema númeru un, nia tenke ha­t­ene kona ba prosesu administrasaun to­mak no mós bele halo aprovasaun pr­ojetu. Ezemplu, Diretór ida laiha direitu atu aprova orsamentu ba ninia kom­p­añia, entaun Diretór ne'e ho ninia ko­m­p­añia keta bulak hotu karik", dehan me­m­bru sosiedade sivíl ne'e.

Maibé deputadu Branco la kontente ho prosesu ida-ne'e tanba tuir nia ha­noin, bainhira Primeiru Ministru mak as­ina kontratu ho kompañia sira, ne'e bele habelar liután hahalok nepotizmu, ne'ebé taka dalan makaas ba transparente no akontabilidade, duun Branco. Liután Br­a­nco hateten, bainhira jestaun finansas la entrega ba Ministra Finansas atu as­ina, ne'e hatudu katak Primeiru Ministru la entrega rota komandu orsamentu nian ba Ministra Finansas, padahal Xave gaveta osan estadu nian iha Ministra Finansas nia liman. Maibé kazu asina kontratu ba foos no mina ba EdTL ne'e hatudu ona ka­tak Primeiru Ministru adopta hela sis­t­ema interferénsia de poderes hodi ham­e­n­us burokrasia liu-liu la fó fatin atu promo­v­e transparente no akontabilidade iha si­stema administrativu, Branco du'un.

Maski nune'e Soares esplika katak, Primeiru Ministru asina kontratu tanba lei aprovizionamentu mak fó podér . "lei apr­o­­vizionamentu ne'e uluk governu Fretilín mak halo, no tanba lei ne'e mós mak uluk Primeiru Ministru Mari Alkatiri mós asina kontratu 1 millaun no sala mós ba Maria Ma­dalena eis Ministra Finansas no Gr­i­g­o­rio Sousa eis Diretór Prokurament. Tan ne'e se partidu opozisaun kestiona kona ba lei ida-ne'e entaun tuir ha'u nia hanoin de­putadu sira seidauk familiariza ho si­stema karik", hateten Soares.

Iha parte seluk, Soares mós mens­i­ona kona ba lei finansa publika UNTAET nian lei númeru 13/2001 no agora go­v­e­r­nu planeadu ona atu muda lei hirak ne'e. Nune'e, Soares afirma katak, sira servisu bazeia ba prinsípiu profisionalizmu no integridade atu hametin servisu.

Tempu hanesan, bainhira ko'alia kona ba tansá Américo Lopes mak tenke manan tender ne'e, Soares esplika katak, Ministra Justisa nia la'en mak manan tender ne'e tanba kestaun polítika. Nune'e kestaun polítika ne'e hamosu violasoens ba lei karik, entaun muda lei. See mak bele muda lei ne'e so Konsellu Ministru ho Pa­rlamentu, Prokurament so la'o tuir de'­it lei hotu ne'ebé aprova ona husi pa­rlamentu no promulgadu husi Pr­e­z­idente da Repúblika. "ami la haree see mak tuir tender ne'e, ami so haree de'it pr­ofisionalizmu ema ne'e nian no sira nia integridade atu kaer projetu. Tan ne'e ha'u sempre dehan, ha'u la hak­f­odak ho prosesu husi see de'it atu ba tribunál mós ha'u prontu ba hataan", Soares hateten ho hamnasa.

Maibé bainhira hataan jornalista k­ona ba lei ne'e bele hamosu konflitu de interese, Diretór Jerál ne'e esplika kat­ak, sira sempre evita konflitu de interese iha prosesu tenderizasaun. "se ha'u nia alin hatama dokumentus atu tuir ten­d­e­r­izasaun, entaun ha'u labele tama iha ekipa avaliasaun atu nune'e bele evita ko­nflitu de interese. Maibé ha'u labele impata nia atu labele tuir tender tanba nia iha direitu", dale nia.

Husi parte sosiedade sivíl nian, Jo­aozito Viana, Jenerál Manager Luta Ha­mutuk hato'o nia hanoin katak, governu ida-ne'e seidauk jere loloos mekanizmu transparente tanba governu la fó sai prosesu selesaun ba kompañia sira ne'ebé atu kaer projetu, hanesan ko­mp­añia hirak mak tuir tender no hira mak liu selesaun. Prosesu hanesan ne'e bele hamosu espe­k­ulasaun oioin iha tenderizasaun hanesan preokupasaun ba ko­mpañia hirak ne'ebé viavel no hir­ak ne'ebé sira nia plataforma projetu ki'ik maibé la liu selesaun. Loloos, governu tenke hadi'a sis­tema ida-ne'e iha inisiu loke tend­er hodi nune'e bele evita esp­e­t­ativa husi kompañia sira ne'ebé tuir tender no bele limita kontr­ad­i­saun iha públiku .

Maibé tanba governu la ha­lo ida-ne'e entaun mosu daud­a­un problema lubun ida hanesan ko­ntratu foos nian, dehan Viana. Nia elabora tan katak, oras ne'e foos barak fuhuk iha armazein no prosesu distribuisaun foos la to'o ba benefisiáriu sira. Kond­i­saun hanesan ne'e fó fatin mak­a­as ba esplikasaun katak gove­r­nu ida-ne'e promove hela KKN.

"ami hakarak hateten katak, fundus estabilizasaun ekonómiku relasiona ho fahe tratores mak or­as ne'e komesa hasae ona produsaun iha distritu balu hanesan iha distritu Bo­b­onaru sub distritu Maliana, Segunda (06­/07/09) agrikultór sira hala'o dem­o­n­strasaun tanba sira nia produtu lokál ku­a­ze atus haat toneladas resin mak rai de'it iha armazein sub distritu to'o dodok.

Tanba ne'e, ami hakarak husu katak saida mak naksalak iha prosesu ida-ne'e tanba husi parte ida governu haruka ag­rikultór sira prodús maibé husi parte seluk governu halo kontratu daudaun ho im­p­o­rtadór sira. Ida-ne'e hatudu katak laiha ak­ontabilidade iha sistema admini­s­t­r­a­s­a­un governu nian liu-liu sala iha prosesu inisiu tenderizasaun nian.

Nune'e ami husu ba governu tenke envolve ema hotu iha prosesu selesaun ba kompañia hirak ne'ebé hatama doku­m­entus atu manan tender no publika sai kompañia ne'ebé mak liu selesaun, atu nu­n­e'e bele evita espekulasaun opiniaun públiku kona ba familiarizmu iha prosesu te­nderizasaun", katak Viana.

Maski nune'e, Viana defende katak see de'it iha direitu atu tuir tender maski ema ne'e ministru nia oan ka alin tanba sidadaun hotu iha direitu hanesan. Tuir ko­nvensaun direitus humanus no ko­nvensaun kona ba polítika ekonomia sos­iál no kultura, fó espasu ba ema hotu iha asesu hanesan, la'ós tanba nia mi­nistru ka ministra ida nia oan ka alin. Ma­ibé ema hirak ne'ebé manan tender ne'e tenke garantia kualidade ba projetu ne'ebé nia kaer tanba antes nia manan projetu ne'e iha kritériu tenderizasaun ida ko'alia kona ba kualifikasaun. Maibé sei di'ak liután bainhira governu kria me­k­anizmu ida atu evita sistema familiarizmu iha tenderizasaun, katak nia.

Iha parte seluk ko'alia kona ba pre­o­kupasaun balu katak, Primeiru Ministru la entrega poderes ba Ministra Finansas atu kaer jestaun finansas, membrus sosiedade sivíl ne'e haklaken katak, ida-ne'e hanesan prosedimentu balu ne'ebé seidauk klaru iha Ministériu Finansas rasik, tanba Ministériu Finansas so hato'o proposta atu hetan aprovasaun husi Xefe Governu mas la'ós asina ko­­ntratu, tanba Ministériu Finansas iha responsabilidade atu prepara kontratu liu husi divizaun aprovizionamentu.

"tuir dokumentus balu ne'ebé ami he­tan ne'ebé mak Primeiru Ministru asi­na kontratu balu, ne'e loloos sala. Maibé tanba Primeiru Ministru asumi mós ka­rgu Ministru Defeza no Seguransa nian entaun nia bele asina dokumentus balu hanesan Ministru la'ós Primeiru Mi­n­i­s­t­ru. Primeiru Ministru so hala'o ap­r­o­v­a­s­aun proposta balu husi Ministériu Finansas tanba ministériu ne'e hanesan dapur ida ne'ebé atu ma­neja dapur kiki'ik sira tuir departamentu ida-id­ak hanesan maneja prosedura hafoin lori ba Primeiru Ministru atu halo aprovasaun", dehan Viana.

Maibé bainhira responde pergunta jornalista kona ba lei aprovizionamentu fó podér ba Primeiru Ministru atu asina kontratu, Viana esklarese katak, lei aprovizionamentu fó podér maibé podér atu asina kontratu ba kompañia estadu entre nasaun. Ezemplu asina kontratu ho kompañia Conoco Ph­ilips hodi halo esplorasaun mina iha tasi timor, ha­nesan mós asina kooperasaun ho komp­a­ñ­ia ENI ne'ebé manan bloku iha área soberania tasi nian. Maibé ba kontratu ho kompañia multi na­sionál ho orsamentu kontratu tokon ida ka rua, ne'e Primeiru Ministru laiha devér atu asina.

Nune'e bainhira ko'alia kona ba Primeiru Mi­nistru asina kontratu ho kompañia Pualaka Pe­troleu Fuel hodi fornese mina ba EdTL ho totál or­samentu US$ 1.473.360,00 (hakerek iha do­k­u­mentu ida ne'ebé asina husi Américo Lopes ho data, 3 Abríl 2009), Viana haktuir katak, ida-ne'e ha­tudu katak Primeiru Ministru halo sala tanba asina kontratu ho kompañia nasionál. Desizaun hanesan ne'e mós hatudu interferénsia de po­d­eres tanba loloos aprovizionamentu mak asina ko­ntratu ho kompañia sira, Primeiru Ministru so halo de'it aprovasaun ne'ebé hato'o husi Min­i­s­t­é­riu Finansas. Tanba ne'e Viana rekomenda ba go­vernu atu hadi'a sistema, mekanizmu no pro­s­e­dura iha prosesu tenderizasaun, se lae aban ba­inrua 1 dolar de'it mós Primeiru Ministru mak asina, du'un Viana.

Husi parte seluk, Vise Diretór Luta Ha­m­utuk, Edio Saldanha Borges hateten, lei nú­meru 7 artigu 3, lei es­t­atutu dus titulares ór­gaun soberanu ha­k­erek ona kona ba im­p­idementus oioin ha­n­esan kona ba saham labele liu 10% no mós parentes kolatoral to'o 2 grau hetan impe­d­e­m­entus atu partisipa iha tenderizasaun. Ta­nba ne'e, se Prime­i­ru Ministru asina kon­t­ratu ida ba Ministra nia la'en ne'ebé Pri­m­­eiru Ministru rasik iha ligasaun família ho mi­nistra ka ho empr­e­z­áriu ne'e, entaun ha­t­u­du katak Primeiru Mi­nistru viola duni lei Estatutu dus Titulares Órgaun Soberanu tanba mosu konflitu de interese iha prosesu asina kontratu.

Tanba ne'e, Edio sujere atu órgaun ko­mpetente tenke halo prosesu ba kazu ida ne'e, maibé membrus sosiedade sivíl ne'e la kon­korda bainhira prosesu ne'e to'o de'it meza Pr­ovedór Direitus Humanus no Justisa ka ha­ruka Inspesaun Je­rál halo investigasaun ou haruka Vise Pr­i­meiru Ministru ba Asuntu Adm­inistrasaun ha­r­ee, maibé tenke lori to'o meza Prokuradór Je­rál atu iha akuzasaun ida para ema tomak be­le haree no hatene katak, lei ne'e halo ba ema hotu la'ós halo lei atu pró­t­eze ema boot sira, dale nia.

Edio reforsa liután katak, halo lei atu ga­rante ema tomak nia direitu ba justisa, la'ós ha­lo lei bazeia ba polítika de'it hodi sakrifika ema seluk nia moris. "ita ko'alia beibeik katak ida-ne'e sala maibé ha'u bele hat­e­ten katak, ita labele sukat ita-nia sa­la ho liafuan de'it tanba ita tenke uza lei hodi sukat ita-nia sala. Se ita la uza lei hanesan prosedimentu ida hodi prosesa ita-nia sala, maka ita sei hatoman-an ho sala hodi fó pr­ospetu ba ema seluk katak tansá ida ne'ebá bele halo nusa ha'u la­b­ele halo", dehan Vise Diretór ne'e.

Maibé oinsá atu hakotu hahalok hanesan ne'e, tuir Edio nia hanoin katak, Parlamentu Na­sionál tenke uza sira nia kompeténsia ha­n­esan fi­skalizador, hodi haree no fó hanoin ba governu atu labele halo buat seluk ne'­e­bé la'­ós sira nia kompeténsia. "la'ós de'it ta­nba ma­un boot entaun ita hotu ta'uk, ita ho­tu la­ko­hi. Nein see de'it kuandu kontra lei, ita la­­bele ta'uk atu kurize tanba ita ko'alia kona ba estadu no povu la'ós ko'alia kona ba ma­­un boot", katak Edio.

Liután nia hateten, kuandu ulun boot si­ra halo sala entaun "ita bele konsulta ho lei kó­di­gu penál hanesan razaun ida atu ha­tún sa­­nsaun maibé tenke liu husi tribunál. Ag­ora, se kestaun ne'e mosu hanesan pr­osesu po­lí­tiku ida entaun Parlamentu mak be­le foti so­l­u­saun polítika ida ba kestaun ha­nesan ne'e. Ma­­ibé se kestaun ne'e ha­nesan krime ida en­taun Prokuradór tenke halo prosesu lalais ho­di halo investigasaun. Hanesan mós kazu si­ra seluk, ezemplu reabilitasaun prizaun Be­k­o­ra no Gleno no mós fornesimentu far­d­a­m­­entu ba guarda pr­izional Timor-Leste, ne'e te­­nke ser iha pr­osesu to'o rohan para ema be­le haree ka­tak ita iha kometimentu atu ha­r­ee buat hi­rak ne'ebé la loos", Edio sujere.(aro)