The court has given 15 days to serving and former police officers and a contractor to appear before it to submit their statements, and 30 days to a foreign national also indicted in the case. [break]
"We have decided to publish a notice in a national level English-language daily in the name of Michael Rider, director of Assured Risks, the firm that supplied the APCs in the Sudan scam, asking him to appear before the court within 30 days," said Dhir Bahadur Chand, registrar of the court, adding, "We have issued 15-day summons notices in the names of the other 35 accused."
The commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Tuesday filed a corruption case against 36 individuals, accusing them of embezzling Rs 290 million while procuring and supplying armored personnel carriers (APCs) and other logistics to UN peace keepers from the Nepal police serving in Darfur, Sudan.
Meanwhile, the CIAA on Wednesday said it will begin investigations into the Sudan scam in future if any new evidence related to the case becomes available.
Replying to journalists´ questions at a press meet, CIAA Lead Investigation Officer Dilli Raman Acharya said, "We will initiate a probe against anyone if new and concrete evidence related to the Sudan scam is available in future."
CIAA Secretary Bhagwati Kafle told journalists that they were neither influenced nor dominated by any sort of pressure or elements while probing and filing the case. Kafle flatly denied allegations that the anti-graft body came under pressure not to indict former home ministers and secretaries in the charge sheet.
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