The CIAA had filed a corruption case against Jhalak Sharma Poudel, an accounting officer at the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development and Transport Management of Gandaki Province, in Ashad 2082. On Monday, a separate case was filed for money laundering, claiming a sum of Rs 25.864 crore.
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A case has been filed against suspended Accounts Officer of the Gandaki Province Government, Jhalak Sharma Poudel, on charges of amassing wealth through misuse of public office.
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed a case against Poudel in a special court on Monday, demanding imprisonment and fine of Rs 25.864 million and confiscation of undisclosed assets.
The Commission has also filed a case against Poudel's wife Huma Kumari Upadhyay and relatives Jamuna Kumari Roka Chhetri, Hari Prasad Poudel and Shanti Darai Poudel, alleging that Poudel laundered his illegally acquired wealth through various means.
The CIAA has filed a case against Huma Kumari for Rs 22.3 million, Jamuna Kumari for Rs 16.3 million and Hari Prasad and Shanti Darai for a lump sum of Rs 13.8 million, demanding half of the punishment to be imposed on the main defendant.
The CIAA had filed a corruption case against Poudel, an accounts officer of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure Development and Transport Management, Pokhara, Kaski under Gandaki Province, on 25 Ashad 2082, demanding a sum of Rs 62.6 million 93 thousand 129.
Poudel is currently under suspension after the case. The case is currently pending in the special court. Immediately after the corruption case was filed, the CIAA had conducted a separate investigation into the crime of laundering illegally acquired assets. Ganesh Bahadur Adhikari, the CIAA's assistant spokesperson, said that a case was filed against 5 people on Monday, concluding the same investigation.
‘It has been found that out of the assets acquired illegally by Jhalak Sharma Poudel, the amount of Rs 25.134 million and Rs 462 in fixed deposits and deposit accounts in banks and cooperative institutions in the names of himself and his wife Huma Kumari Upadhyay was illegally acquired. Poudel took out loans without taking any loans to confirm the source of the assets with the intention of concealing and defrauding them and preparing documents accordingly and returning the loans to various individuals. However, it has been confirmed that he has done/caused them to conceal, defraud, and change the true nature, source, location, and transactions of the assets through a network of transactions at various levels that he claims to have returned,’ the chargesheet filed by the Authority in the special court states.
The authority has also included Rs 732,862, which was increased/increased due to interest on the amount of undisclosed income, as illegal assets. The chargesheet states that Poudel, with the malicious intention of hiding the source and evading punishment for the criminal act, changed the rights and ownership of the property he had obtained in this way. The demand has also been made to confiscate Rs 17 million 13 thousand 50 in the bank account of the accused Poudel.
