Kathmandu, September 2
Nine months after the allegation that the then minister for communications and information technology Gokul Baskota demanded a commission from a Swiss company agent for awarding his company a contract to open a security printing press in Nepal, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has summoned the man who leaked the audiotape with the charge.
Issuing a public notice on Wednesday, the anti-corruption constitutional body summoned Bijaya Prakash Mishra to come to the commission for a discussion within the next seven days. If Mishra fails to show up, the commission says it will move forward the investigation on its own.
The allegation had forced Baskota, a confidant of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, to resign.
