In the complaint submitted to the authority for corruption in the Maoist militant camp, the then Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai and former minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara and other commanders were demanded to be investigated and prosecuted, but due to a dispute within the authority about conducting a detailed investigation, the file itself was put on hold.
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Even after 20 years of complaints of corruption in militant camps linked to Maoists, there has been no detailed investigation.
After the comprehensive peace agreement was signed on 5th November 2063, a complaint was filed with the Authority stating that 9 billion 796 million 80 thousand 296 rupees were spent in 6 years while managing the camp of the Maoists for the peace process and that there were irregularities in it. However, the authority decided to collect the details for the investigation and keep them under investigation.
It was mentioned in the details submitted by the Ministry of Peace that the highest expenditure in camp management was 5 billion 8886 million 73 thousand 746 rupees in monthly allowance, 2 billion 76 million 56 million 14 thousand 962 rupees in maintenance, 261 million 10 million 3 thousand 17 rupees in infrastructure construction and 27337 million 10 thousand 567 rupees in other expenses. In the complaint filed in 2069, it was demanded that investigation and action should be taken against then Amaoist President Pushpa Kamal Dahal, former Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, former Minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara and other military commanders.
In December 2070, the authority decided to keep it under investigation after completing the investigation. But on 31 August 2073, the authority opened the file of the militant camp asking them to appear within 30 days. This decision was disputed within the authority. As the law states that the Authority cannot investigate the decision made by the Council of Ministers, it was put on hold after some commissioners stood in favor of not filing a case.
In section 4(b) of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority Act, 2048, there is a provision that "the Commission shall not investigate and investigate under this Act and take any action related to any policy decision made collectively by the Council of Ministers or any of its committees and the judicial functioning of the court". Based on this arrangement, the authority again put the complaint of the militant camp scam under review. Despite the fact that the Authority has shown the basis of the legal system that the policy decisions of the Council of Ministers do not come under the scope of investigation, the demand for a detailed investigation of the matter has been raised as it has political influence.
camp till August 2065. That amount was increased to 6,000 from October of the same year and 6,500 from July 2068. A lump sum of up to 8 lakh rupees was given to the fighters who went on voluntary retirement according to their rank. The allowance given to the fighters in the camp was understood by the Maoist party from the one-man government. And the party used to distribute the fighters. It was suspected that a large amount of money was involved in corruption.
Such a suspicion was strengthened by the expression of the then Chairman of the Maoist Center Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda'. Addressing the Maoist fighters at the fighter camp at Shaktikhor in Chitwan on 8 December 2064, he said that more than the actual fighters were kept in the camp and the money received from it was used to prepare for the rebellion. Later, when the adjustment process was about to end, the Maoist fighters themselves raised the issue of irregularity of the fighters in the camp. They alleged that a lot of money was collected from them in the name of Lebi and that the party leaders interfered unnecessarily with the money they got when they left the camp.
This issue was brought to the authority by the Yuva Sangh, a sister organization of CPN-UML. The Yuva Sangh filed a complaint against the then unified Maoist Chairman Prachanda, leaders Baburam Bhattarai, Krishna Bahadur Mahara and other leaders in the Abuse of Authority Investigation Commission on October 5, 2069. In the complaint, it was claimed that Rs 4 billion had been embezzled.
On 31 August 2073, the authority also announced that it would speed up the investigation of irregularities in combatant camps. The commission had issued a letter to the commanders of the militant camps and the top leaders of the Maoists to reply within 30 days. But then the authority never opened the file.
