When will the cooperative investigation report be implemented?

The report concludes that 655.4 million savings of the five cooperatives were transferred to Gorkha Media Network and embezzled, and recommended action against the company's chairman Gitendrababu (GB) Rai, the then managing director Ravi Lamichhane and directors Chabilal Joshi and Kumar Ramtel. According to the police officials, the report has opened the way to investigate the four directors of Gorkha Media for fraud, racketeering, money laundering and organized crime. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had promised to implement the suggestions and recommendations two days before the

committee brought the report. In the meeting of the committee, he said that those who cheated the cooperative's savings and absconded abroad will be issued a 'red notice' and brought back. Oli's statement was, 'Such things like looting other people's property, dreaming of a golden paradise and leaving people to die are not acceptable.'

Surya Thapa, Chairman of the Special Committee of Inquiry, submitted the report to Parliament on Monday. After understanding the report, Speaker Devraj Ghimire has instructed the government to 'take action'. But the committee chairman Thapa says that the parliament secretariat has completed the process and submitted the report to the government. "We have called the Prime Minister to the committee and requested him to make a commitment so that the implementation does not take time," he said.

Among the four directors of Gorkha Media who were involved in the 65 crore fraud, Chairman Rai is absconding while Ramtel is in Pokhara jail pending trial. Lamichhane was the deputy prime minister and home minister in the government led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, so the investigation on him was blocked. The complaint filed by the savers and the Pokhara Metropolitan City was also denied by the police and the investigation report prepared by the Central Investigation Bureau of the Police was also hidden. The then head of CIB, Shyam Gyawali, attended the parliamentary committee and claimed that there was no such investigation by CIB.

After the Dahal-led government was ousted and a new Congress-UML government came in, the RSVP is in the opposition. While in the opposition, Congress leader Ramesh Sukkar, who raised a loud voice in Parliament with evidence that Lamichhane was involved in misappropriation of cooperative savings, is currently the Home Minister. According to an official of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Kaski police have submitted the investigation report on Lamichhane to the district attorney's office. "The Home Minister said that after all the preparations are done, we will have to proceed after seeing how the report of the committee comes out," said the official, "implementation will start only after the report is submitted to the government."

A few days ago, the Home Minister said to Kantipur that all the procedures according to the prevailing law will be carried out based on the suggestions and recommendations of the report. Communications and Information Technology Minister Prithvisubba Gurung, who is also the spokesperson of the government, says that the report will be implemented. He asked not to entertain the suspicion that the report will not be implemented.

Congress spokesperson Prakasharan Mahat says that the report on the inquiry into co-operative savings embezzlement, embezzlement and fraud is different from the previous parliamentary committee reports. He believes that the government will implement the recommendations of the committee on misappropriating the money of poor people.