Cabinet Meeting: Commission Formed to Probe Political, Bureaucratic Bigwigs’ Property

The government has formed a four-member commission to investigate the property of political and high level government officials in the period of last 20 years- since 2062/63BS to 2082/83BS.

The Cabinet meeting held on Wednesday decided to form the commission under a coordination of former Supreme Court judge Rajendra Kumar Bhandari. The commission would collect details on the property of those public officials- politicos and bureaucrats- and launch investigation accordingly.

Members of the commission are former judges Chandiraj Dhakal and Purushottam Parajuli, former Deputy Inspector General of Nepal Police, Ganesh KC, and a chartered accountant Prakash Lamsal.

Earlier, on March 27, the government formed under Balendra Shah’s premiership had decided to form the probe commission within two weeks. Even no 43 of 100-point governance reform plan had included this matter.

The point had mentioned that a high-powered panel would be formed under the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers in a bid to end impunity and corruption by launching a probe on propriety of the high level public officials.

The investigation would be conducted based on legal criteria and evidence. Recommendations of the investigation would be forwarded to the concerned bodies for its enforcement. (RSS)