Anti-Graft Body Investigates KP Sharma Oli's Private Secretary Rajesh Bajracharya for Illicit Assets

Kathmandu. The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority has started an investigation into Rajesh Bajracharya, the private secretary of UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli. The commission has started an investigation into him on suspicion of acquiring illicit assets.

The commission has made Bajracharya fill out a wealth statement form. Bajracharya has filled out a 13-page form related to the wealth statement and submitted it to the CIAA. A high-ranking official of the commission said, ‘He submitted the wealth statement form on Friday.’

The Asset Investigation Commission led by former judge Rajendra Kumar Bhandari, formed by the Council of Ministers, requires filling out a 12-page form. However, the CIAA investigates illicit assets by making people fill out a 13-page form. If illegally acquired assets are found during the investigation of the wealth statement, the commission can file a case in the special court under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 2059 (2002), according to legal provisions.

Bajracharya’s connection was revealed during the investigation into irregularities in the leasing of Nepal Trust land in Durbar Marg by Yeti Group’s Thamsherku Trekking. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) investigation concluded that Rajesh Bajracharya and his wife Rashmi Shakya received a house built on approximately four ana land in Rose Village Housing in Balkot as a bribe from Yeti Group.

At that time, the government lawyer had given Bajracharya immunity. In Poush 2082 (December 2025), the bureau had written to the CIAA recommending an investigation into corruption charges against him. AIG Dr. Manoj KC, chief of the bureau, said, ‘We had written to the CIAA about the need to investigate corruption.’

Upon receiving information that the CIB had sent a letter to the CIAA to investigate corruption charges against Bajracharya, Oli, during a meeting with then Prime Minister Sushila Karki at Baluwatar, had requested her to remove Dr. KC from his post. A high-ranking official from the Prime Minister’s Office said, ‘He told Sushila Karki that AIG KC was unnecessarily pursuing the matter.’