The CIAA itself is an institution run by corrupts. Anyone who knows and has worked with Lokman Singh Karki knows very well the amount of money he amassed during this years as DIG of Customs Nepal. He was one of the biggest thugs under the banner of civil service. His colleagues and sub-ordinates were scared of him. Of course he had his imposing physical figure of 6ft 2inches and 90 kilos. His father was a well-known rapist in his village. Now his right-hand in CIAA is a man named Deep Basnet, an ex-customs official who also amassed huge amount of bribed money. Every businessman of Nepal knew Deep Basnet and would queue every morning in front of his house to bribe him before he went to work and before the businessmen’s’ consignment arrived in the airport’s warehouse. He was arrested in 2006 by CIAA for corruption but paid a hefty sum of 50 Lakhs and got bailed out. Then he paid the best of the lawyers and got his named cleaned. Then in 2014, he paid close to 1 corore to get a job in CIAA. Newspapers wrote about how a person accused of corruption by CIAA in 2006 can get a job in the same organization. But this is Nepal. Anything can happen.

Now the question is, why did these 2 guys, Lokman and Deep Basnet take up jobs in CIAA. Is it to repent what they had done throughout their carriers? Did they become holymen after they quit their jobs at the customs? And why would Deep Basnet pay 1 corore to get a job in CIAA? What is this investment for? The answer is, CIAA is the biggest government institution that can blackmail and extort tons of money in Nepal. There will be tons of deals between the CIAA officials and corrupt politicians and businessmen who have evaded taxes and VATs. The ones we hear of in the newspaper will be of the ones who do not want to pay CIAA.

So do not be duped. CIAA is just another mafia organization run under the government banner.