KATHMANDU: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has filed  charge-sheets against the suspended Director General of Inland Revenue Department Chudamani Sharma and two others at the Special Court on Sunday.

Sharma, Lumba Dhoj Mahat and Umesh Prasad Dhakal have been accused of embezzling revenue by exempting huge taxes of big businesses for mutual benefits when they were the office bearers of Tax Settlement Commission 2015.

The anti graft body has claimed on the charge-sheets that the trio has embezzled nearly Rs 11 billion, demanding imprisonment and fines in accordance with the Prevention of Corruption Act 2002.

Sharma was arrested on June 2 and has been taken into the custody of the CIAA.

However, Mahat and Dhakal, permanent residents of Hariaun VDC-9 in Sarlahi and Palung VDC-5 in Makawanpur respectively, have been absconding ever since they were instructed to be present before the Commission resulting the anti-graft body to seek people's help on June 22 in finding the whereabouts of the duo, the first of its kind in its history.

Chudamani Sharma, suspended Director General of Inland Revenue Department, at the Special Court on Sunday, June 4, 2017. Photo: RSS