KATHMANDU, Aug 30: Police have arrested Shambhu Bharati, an agent of the contractor company involved in the much-talked-about Sudan scam.

Issuing a press release on Friday morning, the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police said that a team of CIB arrested Bharati from Bhaisaepati, Lalitpur on Friday morning.

He was found guilty while supplying APC and substandard equipment for the Nepal Police force deployed as part of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan.

Subsequently, the CIB produced him to Kathmandu District Court to execute the court's verdict. Bharati, who was convicted of corruption in the Sudan scam, had remained absconding for the past few years.

In its verdict on 13 February 2012, the Special Court had concluded that three ex-IGPs Om Bikram Rana, Ramesh Chandra Thakuri and Hem Bahadur Gurung and other police officers worked in collusion with contractor Bharati and inflicted a loss of more than Rs 280 million on the Nepal Police Welfare Fund. Rana, Gurung, and Thakuri were found guilty in the scam and jailed.

Later on, Rana, Gurung, and Thakuri were released. Similarly, former DIGs Dipak Shrestha and Rabi Rana were also jailed and released.

The Special Court had sought bail from Bharati but he failed to deposit money. Therefore, he was sent to Dilli Bazar jail. 

Bharati, a representative of the London-based Assured Risks Pvt Ltd, had won the bid and supplied APC and other logistical equipment to the war-torn African country where the Nepal Police team was deployed in the UN Peacekeeping Mission.

In its probe report, the United Nations had concluded that the APC and other equipment supplied by Bharati ‘substandard'.

 
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