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Graft and riots



The government has not yet taken action against the people identified by the Rayamajhi Commission as having been involved in suppressing Jana Andolan II. In the meantime, those accused by the Commission have been been found to be involved in communal, ethnic, and religious violence. While Kamal Thapa has been arrested for inciting violence in the tarai, we understood that royalist Badri Prasad Mandal, royal chief secretary Lokman Singh Karki, and advisor to the king Satchit Shamshere Rana were also actively involved in stirring the violence in the tarai.
Karki is said to have used his sources at the Finance Ministry to raise the money needed to organise the riots. Karki apparently receives commissions on evaded custom's duties for successful smuggling deals. He also gathers funds using the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works (via commission on contracts) and the Supreme Court (via revenue-related cases).

Our source tells us that those accused by the Rayamajhi Commission regularly meet in Kathmandu and have been planning their moves for a long time. They began by implementing them in Nepalganj and have since successfully and systematically moved in to other regions in the tarai.



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