Nepal’s anti-corruption watchdog, the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), has written to at least 29 powerful people in the country ordering them appear in front of the constitutional body within seven days. CIAA has simultaneously asked all banks to freeze their lockers by today, December 7.
The list includes prominent personalities from ex-ministers to already-rich business people who dobbed into politics to make money rather than serve the teeming (needy) millions to a journalist renown for his contribution to the development of media in the South Asian region.
Whether investigations against these mighty corruption listers will have teeth or not (because CIAA itself has had fingers pointed at it in the past), today’s report by Kantipur Daily is likely to generate high expectations among the Nepalese people who often say with a sigh, “If only we did not have these politicians and corruption!”
The fact that the list contains the names of 12 former government ministers, and even three current ministerial secretaries, is a proof of just how completely the culture of corruption has sipped into the very fabric of the impoverished nation.
This murky development also raises question whether or not the funds for the earthquake rehabilitation and reconstruction will be duly and democratically spent. There have been reports in the vernacular media, already, about relief being distributed to pseudo disaster victims. It is also suspected that there may have been irregularities in procuring astronomically-priced relief materials (for possible kickbacks) and life-saving medicines.
Citing their anonymous source, senior Kantipur journalist Balaram Baniya and journalist Gokarna Awasthi have revealed that CIAA boss Lokman Singh Karki summoned the CEOs of all banks operating in the Himalayan nation on Friday and ordered them to seize lockers of all named in the list.
The report further adds that the Chief Commissioner of the constitutional watchdog took up the matter with the governor of Nepal Rastra Bank, the apex bank in the country.
The CIAA has in the past investigated a number of high profile subjects and has had some success in sending them to jail. However, many in Nepal believe that the powerful body has done too little of what it could actually achieve in order to save the nation from the scourge of corruption.
Many more are being investigated for a variety of suspected corruption cases, the report added.
List courtesy Kantipur Dainik:
Vidhyadhar Mallik, ex minister Ram Kumar Shrestha, ex-minister Chhabiraj Pant, ex-minister Shankar Koirala, ex-minister Umakanta Jha, ex-minister Tek Bahadur Thapa Gharti, ex-minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara, ex-minister Bhojraj Ghimire, ex-chief secretary and ex-ambassador Lhyrkal Lama, ex-minister Rabindra Pratap Shah, ex Inspector General of Nepal Police Banshidhar Mishra, ex-minister Surendra Pandey, ex-minister Rajendra Pandey, ex-minister Ichharaj Tamang, Member of Parliament and busissman Janardhan Dhakal, Member of Parliament Umesh Shrestha, Member of Parliament and busissman Raj Kumar Agrawal, businessman Bikram Pandey, Member of Parliament and busissman Gita Rana, Member of Parliament and owner of private schools Baburam Pokharel, Member of Parliament and owner of private schools Kanak Mani Dixit, chairman of Sajha Yatayat (public transport company) and publisher of Himal Media Nilam KC Khadka, ex-minister Bijaylal Kayastha, Deputy Inspector General of Police Rajendra Singh Bhandari, Assistant Inspector General of Police Uttam Kumar Bhattarai, secretary at Ministry of Health Anup Kumar Upadhyaya, secretary at Ministry for Irrigation Gopal Bahadur Khadka, executive director, Nepal Oil Corporation Bijay Paudel, ex-MP from Communist Party of Nepal (UML)
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Posted on 12-06-15 6:37
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The CIAA itself is an institution run by corrupts. Anyone who knows and has worked with Lokman Singh Karki knows very well the amount of money he amassed during this years as DIG of Customs Nepal. He was one of the biggest thugs under the banner of civil service. His colleagues and sub-ordinates were scared of him. Of course he had his imposing physical figure of 6ft 2inches and 90 kilos. His father was a well-known rapist in his village. Now his right-hand in CIAA is a man named Deep Basnet, an ex-customs official who also amassed huge amount of bribed money. Every businessman of Nepal knew Deep Basnet and would queue every morning in front of his house to bribe him before he went to work and before the businessmen’s’ consignment arrived in the airport’s warehouse. He was arrested in 2006 by CIAA for corruption but paid a hefty sum of 50 Lakhs and got bailed out. Then he paid the best of the lawyers and got his named cleaned. Then in 2014, he paid close to 1 corore to get a job in CIAA. Newspapers wrote about how a person accused of corruption by CIAA in 2006 can get a job in the same organization. But this is Nepal. Anything can happen.
Now the question is, why did these 2 guys, Lokman and Deep Basnet take up jobs in CIAA. Is it to repent what they had done throughout their carriers? Did they become holymen after they quit their jobs at the customs? And why would Deep Basnet pay 1 corore to get a job in CIAA? What is this investment for? The answer is, CIAA is the biggest government institution that can blackmail and extort tons of money in Nepal. There will be tons of deals between the CIAA officials and corrupt politicians and businessmen who have evaded taxes and VATs. The ones we hear of in the newspaper will be of the ones who do not want to pay CIAA.
So do not be duped. CIAA is just another mafia organization run under the government banner.
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The CIAA itself is an institution run by corrupts. Anyone who knows and has worked with Lokman Singh Karki knows very well the amount of money he amassed during this years as DIG of Customs Nepal. He was one of the biggest thugs under the banner of civil service. His colleagues and sub-ordinates were scared of him. Of course he had his imposing physical figure of 6ft 2inches and 90 kilos. His father was a well-known rapist in his village. Now his right-hand in CIAA is a man named Deep Basnet, an ex-customs official who also amassed huge amount of bribed money. Every businessman of Nepal knew Deep Basnet and would queue every morning in front of his house to bribe him before he went to work and before the businessmen’s’ consignment arrived in the airport’s warehouse. He was arrested in 2006 by CIAA for corruption but paid a hefty sum of 50 Lakhs and got bailed out. Then he paid the best of the lawyers and got his named cleaned. Then in 2014, he paid close to 1 corore to get a job in CIAA. Newspapers wrote about how a person accused of corruption by CIAA in 2006 can get a job in the same organization. But this is Nepal. Anything can happen.
Now the question is, why did these 2 guys, Lokman and Deep Basnet take up jobs in CIAA. Is it to repent what they had done throughout their carriers? Did they become holymen after they quit their jobs at the customs? And why would Deep Basnet pay 1 corore to get a job in CIAA? What is this investment for? The answer is, CIAA is the biggest government institution that can blackmail and extort tons of money in Nepal. There will be tons of deals between the CIAA officials and corrupt politicians and businessmen who have evaded taxes and VATs. The ones we hear of in the newspaper will be of the ones who do not want to pay CIAA.
So do not be duped. CIAA is just another mafia organization run under the government banner.
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I agree with hurray. I do not trust this whole team of CIAA. By the way, it is just an investigation and nevermind it is Nepal where if found guilty( we know they are, but it is their game of money) they are offered penalties in a deal just like with the case of khum Bahudur khadka and Jay Prakash Gupta. If you guys remember, it was offered if they surrender in certain period of time, the amount of fines were reduced. Wtf, and now they are out of prison and both are again in back to politics although they are not in direct political house but they are involved.
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