CIAA submits annual report to Prez
CIAA submits annual report to Prez
Published: 05:47 am Sep 05, 2009
KATHMANDU: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse Authority (CIAA) today submitted its annual report for the fiscal year 2065/66 to President Dr Ram Baran Yadav. Following the submission of the report, the anti-graft body claimed in a press conference that it had achieved 67 per cent success rate in the cases lodged at the Special Court, which looks after corruption cases. The CIAA claimed that the Special Court had decided 92 cases in the last one year out of which 62 cases went in its favour and the rest of the verdicts were gone in favour of the accused. “This is not a discouraging figure,” CIAA Acting Chief Commissioner Lalit Bahadur Limbu claimed. A total of 4,149 complaints were lodged and 3,333 cases were disposed during the same fiscal year - 2065/66. Limbu also claimed that the illegal property accumulation cases comprised of 10 per cent of the working area of the anti graft body. While it remained preoccupied with more than 90 per cent of the areas, many of them related to corruption cases. The CIAA also claimed that it had lodged eight cases involving the government’s property misuse, two cases each concerning illegal property accumulation, acceptance of bribe and corruption in different organisations. The anti-graft body had also fined 86 government officials each worth Rs 5,000 for not submitting their property details as per the direction of the CIAA in the last fiscal. Beda Prasad Siwakoti, another commissioner, added that the CIAA had won many ‘traditional’ corruption cases but said it was lacking in the ‘modern’ corruption cases. Siwakoti further said that the CIAA had sought details regarding the black marketers and the nexus they had built with the government officials.