The leadership of the department has changed after the interim government returned Mainali sent by the previous government and handed over the responsibility to Thakur.
What you should know
While the assets of the party's top leaders are being investigated, the government has appointed Gajendra Kumar Thakur as the Director General of the Money Laundering Investigation Department.
The joint secretary sent by the previous government was recalled and sent to Thakur. After the formation of the interim government, the then director general of the department, Krishna Mainali, was recalled and given the responsibility to Thakur.
Purification Department has been moved from the Prime Minister's Office under the Ministry of Finance and the leadership has also changed.
According to the decision of the Council of Ministers on October 9, approving the Government of Nepal (Division of Work) (Third Amendment Regulations), 2082, the Revenue Investigation Department and the Asset Laundering Department were transferred to the Ministry of Finance, and the National Investigation Department was transferred to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Thakur has been transferred from the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology to the Ministry of Finance and made Director General. He was previously working as Director General in Purification Department. He was also the Deputy Director General of Internal Revenue Department.
According to Finance Ministry officials, Thakur is an expert in revenue and customs systems.
The department is investigating the assets of former Prime Minister and Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, outgoing Prime Minister and UML President KP Sharma Oli, former Prime Minister and Maoist President Pushpa Kamal Dahal and other top leaders in the situation that arose after the 'Jen-G movement'. Since the main demand of the
movement is to control corruption, the government has felt the pressure to investigate the assets of the leaders.
Mainali, who spent 17 months in the Ministry of Finance of Bagmati Province, was transferred to the Ministry of Communication after the provincial budget. The previous government had transferred Mainali to the Director General of Purification Department on October 20.
But less than a month after assuming the position, he has been returned and sent to the Ministry of Finance.
Sources claim that the interim government has adopted a strategy of recalling the officials appointed by the KP Oli-led government and assigning responsibility to their confidants.
Finance Ministry official said, 'Since it is the responsibility of investigating the assets of the leaders, the ministry considered Thakur to be trustworthy and sent Thakur.'
After the 2074 parliamentary elections, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli brought the Money Laundering Investigation Department under the Prime Minister.
Within a few days after he became the Prime Minister, the cabinet meeting on February 11, 2074 took that decision.
At that time, the revenue investigation department, National Vigilance Center, National Investigation Department, Nepal Trust, Investment Board, Public Procurement Monitoring Office, National Statistics Office and other departments were placed under the Prime Minister's Office.
