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CIAA issues notice seeking arrest of ‘absconding’ TSC officials
The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has issued a public notice for the arrest of Tax Settlement Commission (TSC) Chairman LD Mahat and member Umesh Dhakal on the charge of granting tax exemption to various organisations.The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has issued a public notice for the arrest of Tax Settlement Commission (TSC) Chairman LD Mahat and member Umesh Dhakal on the charge of granting tax exemption to various organisations.
The accused TSC officials failed to appear before the anti graft body on June 14 after the summons were dispatched on June 11 asking Mahat and Dhakal to appear before CIAA headquarters seeking their statements.
The notice issued by the CIAA in the front page of Thursday’s Gorkhapatra has labeled Mahat and Dhakal as absconders adding that anyone who provides information about the whereabouts of the TSC officials to the CIAA hotline number—107—or a nearby police station will be awarded accordingly.
The summon to Mahat and Dhakal came after the arrest of Chudamani Sharma, director general of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), on June 2 on charge of misappropriating revenue and settling taxes in a dubious way.
During interrogation of Sharma, the anti-graft agency, according to an official, found that nearly Rs 800 million was misappropriated. Sharma was a member of the TSC before he was transferred to the IRD three years ago.
The TSC, formed in February 2015 by former Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat, had run into controversy after a report of the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) in April called into question the Rs 21 billion tax exemption granted to various enterprises.