Five NEA officials, two Chinese nationals, in CIAA clutches

KATHMANDU, Aug 4: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) arrested five Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) officials, including two assistant managers and a assistant director, and two Chinese nationals on charge of being involved in irregularities and corruption by procuring ‘substandard´ transformers.



The anti-graft body issuing a statement said it arrested NEA’s assistant managers Surendra Prasad Paneru and Madanraj Chapagain, assistant director Harish Bahadur Pal, engineer Prajwal Pandey, chief store keeper Bharat Rupakheti, and Chinese nationals Hu Zheng Qiang and Zou Yi Tian of Hubei Sunlight Electric Company, which supplied the ‘low quality’ transformers. The CIAA said the arrests were made following complaints about the alleged irregularities and based on the related documents as evidence. [break]

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