Not only in VEP, but also in other cases of gold smuggling, Mahara's role is questionable

The investigation commission concluded that Mahara played a role as a gold smuggler's accomplice

Chaitra 10, 2080

Matrika Dahal

Not only in VEP, but also in other cases of gold smuggling, Mahara's role is questionable

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It has been found that Krishna Bahadur Mahara, the former Assembly Speaker and Vice Chairman of the ruling Maoist Center, who was arrested on charges of gold smuggling, has been close to the Chinese gang since a decade ago. Mahara, who was involved in the investigation of gold smuggling through electronic cigarettes (Vape), was found to be in a suspicious role in other cases as well. But there was no investigation in that case.

After the political changes of 2062/63, with the Maoist peace process, Mahara became an MP 4 times, a minister 6 times and a speaker once. But in the last 13 years, it has been found that he is in constant relationship and contact with gold smugglers.

According to the information received from the Commission of Inquiry on Controlling Gold Smuggling, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Nepal Police sources, strong evidence has been found that Mahara has been helping gold smugglers since 2067 by staying close to Chinese gangs. In the days after his relationship with the gold smuggler, Mahara became Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Finance and after the general election of 2074, he became the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

He resigned from his position on October 14, 2076, after an employee of the Parliament Secretariat was accused of sexual abuse. He was arrested by the police and prosecuted. It took 4 days to take a statement for bringing him to Kathmandu.

Even though he was given a 'dispensation' to stay out of custody because of his poor health, more than a dozen facts have been found against him that he helped gold smugglers. In the VEP case, Mahara was seen only in connection with his relationship with the gold smuggler Dawajin Wang, it is seen that he was involved in the protection of the smuggler in Kathmandu to the endowment of the vehicles used by the gold smuggler. 

, which is chaired by former judge Dilliraj Acharya, has also confirmed this and has given an opinion to prosecute Mahara as a 'Matiyar'. The CIB is investigating based on that. Mahara, the former Speaker of the Assembly, had a relationship with Dawajin Wang, the gold smuggling ringleader, through his sons Rahul and Nirmal Mahara.

When two sons went to study in China, they met Dawajin in 2011, and after coming to Nepal, they kept in contact with Wang. So much so, Dawajin used to have easy access to the government residence from Mahara's family home when Mahara was minister and speaker.

Mahara has also given a statement to the police and the commission of inquiry that he knows Wang as a fruit seller. However, the investigation shows that Dawajin is not only a fruit shop, but also a logistic supporter of hydro, an importer of herbs, carpets, food, electronic materials and smuggles gold.

Mahara did not mention anything about Dawajin's other business in the statement. The involvement and role of Mahara's father and son came out only after Dawajin seized the vape brought by his friend Lee Hangsang from Dubai at the airport. Mahara has admitted that he called the customs administrator Arun Pokharel and told him to release the vape after the airport customs seized it.

Babu Mahara said to him that 'my son is coming and see him', Pokharel has filed a document in the police and investigation commission about Mahara's pressure. After that, the facts that Mahara's father and son called various people including gold smugglers 256 times to get rid of the gold have already come out. A case has been filed against Mahara's younger son Rahul in the Kathmandu court for the same offence, so he is in jail pending trial.

The fact that Mahara made 12 out of 18 calls with Dawajin from his own mobile phone and the rest from Chahor's mobile phone is mentioned in the investigation commission report. Mahara has tried to escape by saying that others may have done it with his mobile phone. However, the Commission has mentioned in the report that this claim of Mahara cannot be believed.

'It seems that the claim that other than one call was made by others from his mobile phone and that he refused to contact other than one call does not seem to be objective and cannot be considered credible,' the Commission said in the report about Mahara, 'resham sons Nirmal Mahara and Rahul about the contact and relationship with Dawajeen Wang. It is seen from Mahara's statement that they are in regular contact with cultural relations through Vehora.'' is

Commission has said, 'Though Mahara claimed that he only knew him as a fruit trader, Krishna Bahadur Mahara's claim that he had contact and met only once seems to be false. The Commission is of the view that Mahara, sitting in a government position, joined the activities of easy pick-ups and meals with foreign suspicious characters and helped the gold smugglers by abusing the power of the state. "Dawajin Wang, who is in various high positions of state power and has built a high political personality, is not only familiar with Dawajin Wang, who is involved in gold smuggling, but the regular contact with him on the bus, bus, and family can be taken as unnaturally meaningful," the report said. It has been seen that during the period when Maharal was in power, the contact with the smuggler was continuous. The commission has also discovered the fact that those employees have also promised to help 'as much as possible'. It is also seen that Mahara pleaded for the help of foreign powers to escape from this by saying that "the government and the police have no evidence about gold smuggling and bad elements have plotted political revenge on me and my son". The subject was found from the DFL (Digital Forensic Law) report on Mahara.

Mahara said, 'Please don't have any illusions about me. You should talk where you have access. Especially in the west and south side', he pleaded. When asked about this in a statement, Mahara denied. Not only this, Mahara also seems to have played a suspicious role between Jeevan Gurung, the foreign affairs expert of the then Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun, and another gold smuggler, Dawa Chhiring, who was arrested in the 14 kg gold smuggling case.

Jeevan Kumar Gurung has given a statement in the commission that a certain former Speaker Mahara, who is eating at Dawajin Wang's expense, asked him to put the vehicle bought with Dawajin Wang's investment in his name, so he kept the Duster vehicle in his name and let Dawajin Wang use it. It was found that the same vehicle was also used by the gold smuggler Dawa Chiring. "This shows the role of Krishna Bahadur Mahara in providing logistical support to Dawajin Wang," the Ahayog report states.

Dawa Chiring is currently in jail pending trial in the 61 kg gold smuggling case. Raghavrao Margale, an Indian citizen who is currently in jail in the gold smuggling case, has given a statement to the commission saying, "According to what I have heard, Maharas and fugitive Chinese are involved in gold smuggling".

Jeevan Kumar Gurung, another accused of gold smuggling, has also admitted that Mahara has an unnatural relationship with the Chinese gang. Jeevan Kumar Gurung, who appeared as a co-defendant, was in contact with Dawajin Wang 17 times, Dipesh Pun 266 times, Rahul Mahara 4 times, Nirmal Mahara 8 times, Krishna Bahadur Maharasag 41 times. Jeevan Kumar Gurung has accepted the fact that both his sons' Utbus and contact are family contacts.''The Commission has given the opinion that a case should be filed so that Mahara will be punished as the main smuggler's accomplice in gold smuggling based on the available facts and evidence and other circumstantial evidence.

"The fact that Krishna Bahadur Mahara and his family have a continuous relationship with Dawajin Wang, who is one of the main people involved in the smuggling of gold in Vape and Break Shu, has been confirmed by the documents and circumstantial evidence of the co-defendants and other people understood," the commission said.

'Organized crimes of a large nature are often considered impossible without the support or protection of the state power. Direct evidence of his confession of trying to release the seized vape, according to the jurisprudential recognition and the legal provisions of Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Organized Crime Act, 2070, which is considered to be a crime even if it is seen that he participated or assisted in any link of the series of criminal acts that falls within the scope and nature of the definition of organized crime, Duster It seems that he is guilty from the evidence including the documents of his son Rahul named Resham Mahara and his other son Nirmal Mahara and the statement of Jeevan Kumar Gurung regarding his facilitating work including logistical support in vehicle management, his continuous and meaningful relationship with Dawajin Wang,' the commission said. .

International organized crime is considered a crime of a serious nature and since there is a lack of direct evidence in this type of crime, the commission must find guilt based on circumstantial evidence and there is an established judicial belief that it is considered guilty when circumstantial evidence appears, and the commission is of the opinion that Mahara cannot be granted immunity. The commission charged Mahara with having helped smugglers as an accomplice according to Sections 3 and 4 of the Prevention of Organized Crime Act 2070 and for acting contrary to Section 57 of the Customs Act 2063, demanding imprisonment and a fine. claimed.

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