The CIAA in the chargesheet filed at the Special Court in Kathmandu, Monday also accused eight other police officers and the properietors of two transport companies of being involved in embezzling the huge amount of money through the document faking.
Other officials accused in the scam include APF Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Arbinda Dhital, DSPs Devendra Kumar Shrestha, Nil Bahadur Shrestha and Lekh Bahadur Khatri, Inspector Bin Bahadur Thapa and other police personnel Milan Adhikari, Jagat Narayan Shrestha and Anand Thapa Magar.
The CIAA also chargesheeted Ujjwal Kumar Thapaliya of Sadajyoti Transport and Bharat Kumar Thapa of Aditi Transport for helping the police officials in the embezzling.
The CIAA, in its statement issued on Monday, said that suspended IGP Onta had directed the police officials to prepare documents on transporting logistics and other goods of the security force to various places although no such transportation had taken place.
Onta, according to the anti-corruption body, had instructed the police officers to prepare the fake documents in collusion with the transport companies. Police officials at the store section of the force worked hand in glove with other officials in preparing the documents.
APF headquarters, as requested by the CIAA, had earlier formed a three-member probe committee under the leadership of DIG Dhital to investigate the irregularities.
“But the committee, out of ill intent, tried to hide evidence of corruption by the head of the force and submitted a report with wrong information to the commission,” said the CIAA. “Therefore, cases have been filed against the committee members and the properietors of the transport companies.”
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