A complaint was filed with the CIAA against Shrestha, who was working as a Division Forest Officer in Bhojpur, while he was working in Ilam.
A corruption case has been filed against Dan Bahadur Shrestha, Chief (Official Tenth) of the Division Forest Office, Bhojpur.
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed a case in a special court on Monday, fixing a fine of Rs 15 million on charges of abusing his position and acquiring illegal assets. A fine of Rs 14.318 million and confiscation of undisclosed assets and movable and immovable assets increased from this have been demanded against Shrestha.
A complaint was filed with the CIAA against Shrestha, who was working as a Division Forest Officer at the Division Forest Office, Bhojpur, while he was working in Ilam. Following the complaint of illegally acquiring assets by abusing his position, the CIAA had brought Shrestha's assets under investigation since he entered government service. In that process, the assets of Shrestha from 26 Ashad 2048 to 16 Falgun 2080, 32 years from the time he entered government service, were brought under investigation, and the case was filed under the investigation of assets of undisclosed assets of this period, said CIAA spokesperson Rajendra Kumar Poudel.
Shrestha and his immediate family members have earned only Rs 21,185,557.96 in income during the period and spent Rs 36,044,995.48 in expenses. 'The expenses were Rs 14,318,937.52 more than the income, and the source could not be confirmed,' the charge sheet filed by the authority states.
The fact that he had acquired illegal assets worth the said amount is inconsistent and unnatural with the asset details submitted by him under the prevailing law, and it has been established in the charge sheet that he had lived a high standard of living that was inconsistent and unnatural compared to his legal income without reasonable cause. Additional punishment has also been demanded for Shrestha submitting false statements and submitting his asset details.
Shrestha has also been made defendants for the purpose of confiscation of assets acquired from undisclosed sources while in public office, including his wife Narmaya Shrestha, daughter-in-law Bhavana Baruwal, and the Forest and Environment Research Organization Pvt. Ltd. Bhaktapur, which he manages.
