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What can we learn from Pradeep Adhikari?
Every year, we get to read about our high-ranking government officials getting their day in court for engaging in corruption. But the story of our great Pradeep Adhikari is good enough to make it into a Nepali movie or even the South Indian filmmakers would love to do a film on such characters.
Pradeep used to head CAAN, our civil aviation body and he seems to have had close ties with our old politicians and is rumored to have gotten the job after offering 10 Karods to our netas back then. He has been in prison facing corruption charges and hope the courts will find him guilty soon and he can spend his time in jail for his misdeeds.
Pradeep is charged with making more than 137 million Rupees from shady deals while heading CAAN. Under our laws, the CIAA wants the money back and the fines as well, for a total of the same amount. People like Pradeep will spend a few years in jail when found guilty but I have yet to read any media reports of such corrupt eggheads paying the fines at all. It seems that spending time in jail and then getting away with the money seems to be the solution for people like Pradeep.
People like Pradeep, who are hakims in our government agencies, seem to have a nice hundi network and transfer their ill-gotten wealth to Singapore, Dubai and even the United States. It is also surprising that many of our high-ranking civil servants and shady dalals seem to have their families settled abroad and the money is used to buy real estate and gas stations there.
What is interesting about our man Pradeep is that he used all the tricks he knew to get his corruption case dismissed. He hired some folks to threaten the CIAA chief, and that failed. He even asked help from a tantric in India to do some black magic on the same CIAA chief as well. That failed as well. He then asked one shady businessman to make a deal with Oli's personal secretary and things didn't go as planned.
He even made plans to topple the Sushila Karki government and make himself the Tourism Minister. That didn't happen. Pradeep will most likely be found guilty and sent to prison. There are thousands of such hakims who have made millions and even billions in the past three decades. The Balen government has plans to investigate such corrupt people and when they start going through the files and all the way back to the 90s, we will likely see tens of thousands of hakims, netas and even shady byaparis charged with corruption.
Our old school jholeys are crying out loud now after the disclosure of assets by Balen and his cabinet ministers a few days ago. They demand an investigation on how these young ones managed to amass such a fortune at such a young age. I guess, these sour losers forgot that most of the wealth must have come from their parents and some from their own personal earnings and that too before becoming lawmakers.
So what can we learn from Pradeep? At the end of the day, you can grease the palms of many evil folks to get to the top but when everything goes wrong, then you are all alone. So the best advice for our civil servants is to no longer engage in corrupt acts. If you are a hakim and have already amassed tons of dough from kickbacks and what not then better flee or else you will also end up in prison.
Well, that was not a good advice and I think the best thing to do for now is to block all passports of all of our former and current high-ranking officials and netas for the next one year and investigate all of their assets and if guilty then send them to Harka Sampang because our man Harka will be the perfect person to make the guilty ones productive by doing hard labor for the development of the country.
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