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Ishwar Pokharel’s controversial co-father-in-law appointed RBB chair

File: Upendra Kumar Koirala

Kathmandu, August 25

The government has decided to appoint Upendra Kumar Koirala as the chairperson of Rastriya Banijya Bank.

The decision was made on Monday. Now, a meeting of the board of directors to be held on Wednesday will officially announce the appointment.

Koirala is a co-father-in-law (his son’s father-in-law) of Deputy Prime Minister Ishwar Pokharel. He has already worked in several government bodies as a political appointee, earning a lot of ill repute.

Koirala was once appointed the executive chairman of Nepal Oil Corporation when Pokharel was the minister for commerce and supplies.

The government formed after the 2006 People’s Movement had appointed him as the vice-chairperson of the then Higher Secondary Education Board. After the Public Accounts Committee in Parliament launched an investigation into reports of his involvement in embezzlement, he was forced to resign.

But again, the government made him the vice-chancellor of Mid-Westen University. There also, he was accused of corruption.

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