KATHMANDU: Forensic experts have said that the quality of the Finance Ministry’s CCTV footage deteriorated as they underwent transfers to multiple devices.
The forensic lab of Nepal Police had on Monday submitted its report on the hard drive containing the CCTV footage of the Finance Ministry to the parliamentary special committee investigating budget tampering charges against former Finance Minister Janardan Sharma.
Police had also provided multiple video clips of May 28 and May 29 recovered from the hard drive along with the report. The committee had then invited two forensic experts from the police to discuss the report on Tuesday afternoon as the recovered video clips were not clear.
During the discussion, members of the committee had asked why the video clips were of poor quality and why even the date was not clear.
The experts answered that the video quality had deteriorated as they had checked the video clips by transferring them to multiple devices, according to a source in the committee.
The committee is to decide its next step through consensus.
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