Complaint filed against CIAA chief Prem Kumar Rai

Kathmandu. A complaint has been filed with the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) demanding an investigation into Prem Kumar Rai, the chief commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), who is involved in three controversial irregularities and corruption.

Yubaraj Poudel of Sindhuli Kamalamai filed a complaint with the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) office on Sunday, demanding an investigation into Rai. The complaint against him has been registered under the number ‘C-003498’.

Poudel has demanded an investigation into Rai in the wide-body aircraft purchase irregularities, Nepal Oil Corporation land purchase irregularities, and the fact that the accused in the fake Bhutanese refugee case put money in Rai’s vehicle.

Last week, the special court had made a judicial comment in the full text of the wide-body aircraft purchase corruption case that there was no investigation into the initial decision-makers of the corrupt activities and that there was selective prosecution by selecting some and leaving others during the trial.

Poudel has said in the complaint, “I have submitted a complaint requesting the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority to immediately file a case against Prem Kumar Rai, who is in charge of the Chief Commissioner of Authority, through a supplementary charge sheet and take maximum action.”

In addition, he has demanded an investigation into the land purchase case of Nepal Oil Corporation. Even when the decision to purchase the land was made, Rai, as the Secretary of the Ministry of Supplies, was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nepal Oil Corporation. Poudel has demanded a re-investigation into the file kept in the custody, saying that Rai was acquitted after filing a case against the then Executive Director of the Oil Corporation, Gopal Khadka.

Similarly, some of the accused in the fake Bhutanese refugee case had stated that they had put cash in the car of the then Home Secretary Prem Kumar Rai. But the police did not conduct any investigation against the CIAA Chief Rai. The complainant Poudel has demanded an investigation into the CIAA Chief Rai in that incident as well.