Kathmandu, May 23:

The Special Court yesterday convicted five businesspersons of a family on corruption charges.

The five — Jagar Nath Prasad Sarraf, his wife Koshila Sonarin, son Rabindra Kumar Sarraf, daughter-in-law Anita Sarraf and daughter Saroja Sarraf — had been accused by the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority of amassing over Rs 10 crore while supplying vehicles to the Agriculture Development Bank-Nepal.

The CIAA had filed a chargesheet against the five, who had set up three companies — Anita Electric and Mechanical Company Private Limited, Ravi International and Kathmandu Tuk Tuk Pvt Limited — and supplied 78 vehicles to the bank in alleged collusion with officials of the ADB-N.

A bench comprising Judges Bhoopdhoj Adhikary, Cholendra SJB Rana and Komal Nath Sharma, however, issued clean chits to all accused bank officials.

The bench acquitted Acting General Manager of the bank Jalan Kumar Sharma, General Manager Ram Chandra Maharjan and senior officials Bharat Kumar Pokhrel and Gopal Prasad Ghimire. It said the charge against the officials could not established. The bench slapped two years’ term on Jagar, one-year on Rabindra and six months’ term on Koshila, Anita and Saroja.