The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) is due to file another corruption case against Chudamani Sharma, the suspended director general of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), at the Special Court on Monday.

The anti-graft body will file case against Sharma for amassing property worth around Rs 43 million through illegal means, informed CIAA Spokesperson Padam Prasad Panday. A CIAA board meeting held on Thursday had decided to file another case against Sharma of amassing property.

Sharma, currently out of contact, failed to present himself at the CIAA office despite repeated summoning. CIAA has issued a warrant against Sharma for his arrest.

On July 16, 2017, the CIAA, in one of the largest ever corruption cases, had charged Sharma and other two members of the Tax Settlement Commission (TSC)—Lumba Dhwoj Mahat and Umesh Dhakal—with embezzling revenues worth Rs10.02 billion each while exempting enterprises of taxes in dubious ways.

Timeline

• Feb ’15: Sushil Koirala-led govt forms Tax Settlement Commission (TSC)
• April 13, ’17: OAG report questions tax settlement by TSC, saying various enterprises were given exemption of tax amounting to over Rs 20 billion
• June 2: CIAA arrests TSC member Chudamani Sharma; he stands suspended as the director general of Inland Revenue Department
• June 22: CIAA issues public notice for the arrest of TSC Chairman LD Mahat and member Umesh Dhakal
• June 29: CIAA sets Rs 3 billion bail for Sharma
• July 11: Sharma’s wife files writ of habeas corpus at the Supreme Court demanding Sharma’s release
• July 16:  CIAA files a Rs 10.2-billion graft case against Sharma, Mahat and Dhakal
• July 19: SC decides to send the writ of habeas corpus to the full bench; orders status quo on the corruption case filed against Sharma, Mahat and Dhakal
• Aug 1: SC sends Sharma to judicial custody
• Aug 11: Apex court full bench orders Sharma’s release on general date; graft case against him to continue at the Special Court