Chiranjibi Wagle is doing just fine -- still acting like a neta.
As I wrote earlier, it's doubtful that he will actually go to jail or pay the fines.

At the very least, Wagle's lawyer Mr. Srihari Acharya remains a relaxed man.

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Now these three ex-IGPs (see the news below) have been slapped with
graft charges. All are -- as reports go -- avoiding the authorities.

It's doubtful that anything will really happen to these ex-IGPs, beyond a "halla"
for a few days in Nepal.

That's because -- by now what has become a predictable pattern -- In Nepal and
among Nepali societies, we hate corruption, but can do NOTHING, NOTHING at all, against corrupt people (who may well happen to be our friends and relatives and neighbors), except have the media "out" them once in a while for some sort of mock public outrage . . . before the issue, well, dies down.

And so it goes . . . on and on.

An example: The following news a big front-page news in yesterday's (Saturday's) Kantipur. Follow-up news to that is nowhere in today's (Sunday's) Kantipur.

oohi
ashu

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CIAA drags three Ex-IGPs to SC on graft charges

KOL Report

KATHMANDU, Aug 13 - The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed cases of graft charges against three prominent former Inspector Generals of Police (IGP) at Special Court (SC) Friday.

The CIAA in its petition filed at SC against the three Ex-IGPs accused them of amassing wealth with no resources disclosed through illegal means or by taking the undue advantage of their posts, while working for Nepal police as IGP.

Those three former IGPs accused of graft charges include former IGP Moti Lal Bohara, Pradip Shamsher Rana and Achhut Krishna Kharel.

CIAA sources say Ex-IGP Moti Lal Bohara failed to furnish resources for his wealth worth Rs 23 million, while Ex-IGP Pradip Shamsher has failed to disclose the resources for his wealth over Rs. 37 million.

Similarly, Ex-IGP Achhut Krishna Kharel failed to furnish resources for his wealth amounting to over Rs.16 million. (hbt)

3 Former IGPs at large
14 August 2004

Three former police chiefs Pradeep Shumsher Rana, Motilal Bohara and Achyut Krishna Kharel are at large and now it is the duty of the special court to find them out, chief commissioner of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Suryanath Upadhyay said. On Friday, the commission had filed separate cases against the three former Inspector Generals of Police charging them of amassing property through corruption while holding public position. Before filing the charge sheet at the special court, the commission had asked the three to be present at its office.

ýBut none of them showed up,ý said Upadhyay. ýWe tried to contact them but they were nowhere to be found and so we informed the special court that the three are at large.ý The commission has said it has based the corruption cases against the three former police chiefs on the findings of a separate commission formed to investigate properties of people who have held public positions.

The commission had said that it did not find the source of former IGP Pradeep Shumsher Ranaýs property worth Rs. 66 million. Another former police chief Motilal Bohara was found to possess property worth Rs 44 million, out of which the source of almost half was unknown. The property of the third retired police chief Achyut Krishna Kharel was valued at Rs. 2.56 million but the source of property worth Rs 1.7 million could not be ascertained, the commission said. The CIAA has demanded that the former police chiefsý property not having source should be confiscated, the three should be penalized and that they be imprisoned.

Sher B. Deoba is silence while his closest ally was punished for the crime.

Its the politics of Nepal. Sad, waht can we do? Nothing.
This drama will continue and frustrated peoples will be highjacked
by the other exploiters, i.e. Maoists.

We publics are in fence line watching them, have no power to do anything.

GP

All Mother Fawkers are thieves...the king, ministers, leaders, bureaucrats etc.And the people (we all) are so stupid that we really deserve this.
Fawk them all.
DP.

Today is Monday.

I would imagine that in any other country the news that three of its top ex-policemen have been slapped with corruption charges, and that all three of them have absconded would have made news and lots of follow-up news . . . keeping the public informed about this very disturbing development.

But except for a lone Rajesh KC cartoon, today's Kantipur national daily -- like its
edition yesterday -- does NOT have a single follow-up news since the news was first made public on Saturday morning.

So, where are these ex-IGPs?
What do their ex-colleagues, neighbors and friends have to say about them?
What are their family members doing?
Why are they running away from the law?
How was it possible for them to amass such huge amounts of wealth?
What is the 'supply side' (i.e. the source) of ghoos?
What happens to the charges if they remain at large?
What is CIAA's strategy for starting trials against them?

And on and on.

Enquiring readers want to know.

oohi
ashu

Irony indeed,
we all shout anti corruption slogans, but not interested to give it a meaningful justice. Now, what can an individual do, scron and boycott such corrupted individuals and organization. Keep the flame burning by raising the topic in any available forume and opportunity, till the prepators are punished. It is either you fight it with whatever you can or just be a long list of those who watch and forget.
Can we at Sajha make any impact? If we can let us play our individual roles, afterall the nation and its progress is not only our responsibility, if others deems it futile we can only play till our consiousness cooperates.

Let me take a stab at Ashu jiýs questions


So, where are these ex-IGPs?
-Travelling

What do their ex-colleagues, neighbors and friends have to say about them?
- Khucching! Lappu khaa Sale

What are their family members doing?
- Enjoying the money that Daddy madeý.. and a bit of travelling too

Why are they running away from the law?
- I stole some money from people and the government and got richýýNow they found outýý.and want me to give it backý..NO WAY! I have to think about my future and kids future too.

How was it possible for them to amass such huge amounts of wealth?
- There are lots of government sponsored programs such as ý Promotions, Transfers, Job promises, commissions, kik-backs, and etcý phew!!!! I could go on and on and on.

What is the 'supply side' (i.e. the source) of ghoos?
- Please see above

What happens to the charges if they remain at large?
- Nothing happens to charges and nothing happens to the generals

What is CIAA's strategy for starting trials against them?
- Oooh boy! Thatýs a hard oneý here is a straight answer from the CIAA, ýWe donýt have oneý..but when we do, weýll realize it and when we realize it, weýll act on it.ý

It is a shame that Kantipur or any other prominent news agencies don't talk about these corruption charges.They are all "Chakadi Baj".Or they have got the share of stolen dough.These thieves should be killed and their properly seized.
DP.

G.P. K,

Thank you for your answers.

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By now, I, for one, have altogether STOPPED wondering about whether anything "bad" will really happen to those charged with corruption in Nepal.

Despite the ink that a number of columnists have spent on him, Wagle is still walking
around, and these three ex-police chiefs too are doing just fine.

Like I have often said on Sajha: We all rail against corruption in an abstract sense,
but are powerless to do anything that smacks of justice to these allegedly corrupt
public officials.

Kantipur national daily -- the paper I read every morning -- has NO follow-up news today (Tuesday) as well.

It's remarkable how such a major story disappears in Nepal in spite of the so-called 'competitive' landscape of Nepali print media (i.e. there are more than 15, yes, 15 broadsheet daily newspapers in Kathmandu alone, WAY more than what major cities such as London, Paris and New York each have.)

Meantime, the Maoists have -- to no surprise -- killed a Radio Nepal journalist for
being a spy. They have shut down a number of major industries. And they have
called for a nation-wide blockade starting August 18.

To play on a Chinese curse, "May we continue to live in these interesting times."

oohi
ashu

the supply side of ghoos that ashu's hinted at above is an interesting
proposition. the query topmost on my mind is: who lined the pockets of
wagle, joshi and the former police chiefs? who have been nurturing the
corrupt? it's a pity that CIAA is only going after the receipients of bribes -
not the givers - as if all that corruption happened in a vacuum? if CIAA,
instead of treating each corruption case as an isolated case, were to
use it as a launching pad to round up more corrupt and nurturers of the
corrupt, it could blow the tops off them both like the Hurricane Charlie.
the idea is to try to create a domino effect by gettingthe corrupt (and
nurturerers of the corrupt) to finger point at each other, and strip away
another layer of corruption. incentives are necessary: the court (if it is
able to persecute successfully) and CIAA (if it has a strong case against
the corrupt) can both strike deals with the persecuted or the charged in
return for you-know-what. make them sing like canaries. why dig graves for
these monsters, when they can be made to dig graves for each other?

having said this, it's a pity that between the CIAA and the court, they
have not been able to persecute a single big fish! why? may be it's high
time to hold the CIAA and its modus operandi to the toughest scrutiny.
CIAA's been in operations for some years now, and and has nothing to
show for it. and this is probably indicative of corruption that goes all
the way to the very top...which means CIAA may possibly be a smoke-
screen to fool the public into thinking the ladder of law has no top or
bottom or that even the rich and the mighty get properly handled.
only if it were so. who knows if CIAA is digging its own grave - i , for one,
see its legitimacy eroding slowly but surely.

Lord Krishna says in Geeta that we all do what we are destined to do. Ex-IGPs took bribes, CIAA is investigating their property, Ashu is posting about it on Sajha, we are reading it, King Gyanendra is ruling Nepal, President Bush is burning Iraq and bombing Afghanistan, a dog has found another lamppost here in Baluwatar. Life goes on. May the blessings of Shivpuribaba be upon everyone of us. Amen.

The amount of money all IGs are said to have difficulty providing legitimate source -- in itself -- is a joke.

>CIAA sources say Ex-IGP Moti Lal Bohara failed to furnish
> resources for his wealth worth Rs 23 million, while Ex-IGP
> Pradip Shamsher has failed to disclose the resources for his
> wealth over Rs. 37 million.

If read between the lines, this is an orchestra to make fool of poor Nepalis. The simple truth is, either none of these are corrupt, or they have amassed a property in an astronomically high magnitude than CIAA has accused them of.

>>Ex-IGPs took bribes, CIAA is investigating their property, Ashu is posting about it on Sajha, we are reading it, King Gyanendra is ruling Nepal, President Bush is burning Iraq and bombing Afghanistan, a dog has found another lamppost here in Baluwatar.

ladies and gentlemen, that wraps it up. We've found a classic!
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