The commission issued two notices in Gorkhapatra on Thursday, requesting the submission of asset details and information along with evidence regarding assets hidden abroad.
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The Property Investigation Commission has issued a public notice urging employees and high-ranking officials who have been in public office since 2062 BS to submit their asset details within a month.
The commission has asked employees from the incumbent to former prime ministers, former ministers, and joint secretary-level employees and office heads who are under the purview of the investigation to submit their asset details. Similarly, the commission has also directed them to provide information about assets held abroad.
The commission issued two notices in Gorkhapatra on Thursday, urging them to submit their asset details and provide information with evidence about assets hidden abroad. The Property Investigation Commission was formed on April 2 under the leadership of former Supreme Court Justice Rajendra Kumar Bhandari.
The commission has asked them to fill out the model form for submitting asset details as it is available on the website. According to the notice, 16 types of public officials will have to submit their asset details. The notice states that the property details can be submitted in person, through their representative or via email.
Those who knowingly submit incomplete or false property details or do not submit the property details within the specified period will be warned of legal consequences.
Those who submit property details regularly every year will also have to submit property details to the commission. In addition, all incumbent and former members of parliament, including the Constituent Assembly, will have to submit property details. Chiefs and office bearers who have been removed from office by constitutional bodies, former judges and retired officers of the Nepali Army at the gazetted first class (joint secretary) level will also have to submit their details.
Similarly, from provincial chiefs to chief ministers to assistant ministers, provincial assembly members to other office bearers, attorney generals to provincial chief attorneys, district development committee to current district coordination committee office bearers, local level chiefs, chairmen and deputy chiefs will also have to submit their property details.
The assets of advisors, personal secretaries, private secretaries and similar officials of all bodies, including the President and Vice President, will also be investigated, so they will also have to submit their assets details. The notice has asked both those officials appointed by the Commission to receive and not receive benefits from the state treasury to submit their assets details.
Since the Joint Secretary and all officials above that, i.e. up to the Chief Secretary, will be under investigation, they will also have to submit their assets details to the Commission. The government has also asked the civil servants, police, Armed Police Force, National Investigation Agency, and other services, including employees from the Joint Secretary and above, to submit their assets details.
Since the heads and employees of Nepali embassies and diplomatic missions will also be investigated, they have also been asked to submit their details. If they have worked as heads of offices, employees of all services, such as Deputy Secretaries, will also have to submit their assets details. The same principle will apply in the case of security agencies. In cases where the office is not headed, they will also have to submit their asset details as the limit is set for the same as the joint secretary.
