A meeting of the Committee on Sunday directed Anfa President Thapa to be present with all necessary documents within the next three days after PAC began investigation into the alleged irregularities in Anfa including the $100,000 the development fund the association received from Qatar.

The PAC acted on the national and international media reports of the alleged irregularities which was followed by Anfa members including two vice-presidents filing complaint against Thapa at the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).

“A complaint against Anfa president Thapa of committing financial fraud was lodged at the PAC and we have begun the procedure to dig out the truth. We will conclude the case after going through the Anfa documents and accounts of the past five years,” said PAC member Dhan Raj Gurung.

Gurung added that a letter demanding the financial details to Thapa had been dispatched on Sunday. “We will conduct a fair investigation. We are just probing into something that has been brought into our notice,” explained Gurung. Thapa meanwhile said that he will comply with the PAC directives. “No one is above the law and I will submit the audit in time,” said Thapa. “I have already submitted 10 year’s financial details to the CIAA. So presenting the five-year audit is not a big deal for me.”

Thapa added that he was confident of coming out clean as he had not misused any fund released either from the Afc or the Fifa in 19 years at the helm of the football’s governing body. “I am ready to face any charges if found guilty,” added Thapa.

Anfa vice-presidents  Karma Tshering Sherpa and Bijay Narayan Manandhar, members Pankaj Bikram Nembang and former players Arjun Lama and Deepak Khati had lodged a complaint against Thapa at the PAC and the CIAA on  June 13.

The complaint was lodged in the wake of news reports carried by the British newspaper The Sunday Times and the local media which revealed Thapa receiving £115,000 from two separate Kemco accounts belonging to now-banned former Afc president and Fifa executive member Mohammed Bin Hammam in March and August, 2010.

Sherpa and Manandhar demanded the anti-graft body to probe into the 2011 report carried by Associated Press which  revealed Thapa receiving an unexplained $100,000 from Bin Hammam in 2010 into the back account of Anfa president’s son Gaurav. Gaurav was an Afc employee back then.