Former Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who was accused of smuggling gold in collaboration with a Chinese organized gang, has been dragged into the investigation of the Abuse of Authority Investigation Commission.

The authority has started an investigation against Mahara, who was successively acquitted by the police and the district attorney's office of Kathmandu in the case of smuggling gold by hiding it in electronic cigarettes (Vape) 3 years ago . In the gold smuggling case with Mahara, the authority summoned him to the Tangal office on Thursday and took a statement. Mahara was investigated in 2079 on the charge of smuggling gold by hiding it in a vape. However, under the guise of power, there was no trial against him. Later, he was again dragged into the investigation and during the investigation, he missed the attendance. Twice Mahara was dragged into the police investigation . The first time he was arrested and arrested from Kapilvastu on 5th Chait 2080. Immediately after his arrest, he was brought to the Central Bureau of Investigation in Kathmandu to continue the investigation, but 5 days later, on 9 Chait, the District Public Prosecutor's Office released Mahara on bail. If the investigation was stopped after that, the authority has now started the investigation again. According to the

source, the investigation officer of the Authority took statements from Mahara throughout the day on Friday. "There was a letter from the District Public Prosecutor's Office asking the Authority to investigate the matter regarding the allegations of gold smuggling against people holding various public positions in the state. After that, statements were taken from the former speaker Mahara on Friday after several people connected to the case had been interviewed," the Authority source said. According to the source, Mahara has admitted in the authority's statement that he is acquainted with his dawajin and that he called the customs staff to release the vape as an acquaintance.

In 2079, when Mahara was dragged into the investigation for illegally smuggling gold together with Chinese citizen Dawajin Wang, the CIB concluded that his involvement was not confirmed and two different cases were filed with only the airport customs staff and the gang and Mahara's son Rahul as defendants.

When Chinese citizen Li Hansong arrived at Tribhuvan International Airport on December 10, 2019 from Fly Dubai, he had hidden about 9 kg of gold in 730 bags of VEP. After passing the VEP check, it was found to be suspicious, and further investigation was carried out by keeping it in the customs warehouse of Tribhuvan Airport. The goods were kept in the customs warehouse for about one and a half months, during that period, the gang took the customs staff in their hands and stole the vape containing gold and brought other vape from the market and kept it in the warehouse. It was revealed that former Speaker Mahara and his son Rahul had repeated telephone conversations with customs officials, smugglers' aides and middlemen to release the gold-laden vape before the goods were transferred. During that time, Mahara pressured the then customs administrator Arun Pokharel and other employees by calling and meeting them to reveal the vape brought by the Chinese smuggler Dawajin Wang. After the

, after the vape seized by the customs was encouraged to be taken to the auction process, a person from the gang came and said, 'This is a special kind of vape, we will sell it ourselves. At that time, it was revealed that the gang had released the vape containing gold and kept other vape in the warehouse . The CIB started an investigation into the matter of bringing the gold secretly in Animatra Vep . Lee, who was a porter on the third day of his arrival from Dubai after the vape was stopped at customs, fled abroad on December 13. On the other hand, the fact that Dawajin Wang, Mahara's father and son, customs employee Lokendra Paudel and another person Shyam Shahas had repeated conversations was also revealed. Mahara, who has been the Speaker of the House of Representatives and former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home, Finance, Foreign Affairs and Communications, remained out of the investigation under the guise of power and strength.