A lot of the corruption allegations and prices centered around Nepal but a ACC team never left for Nepal ACC used information from one of the accused traders in Nepal to find out Gypsum prices From the beginning, it was clear that the cross border nature of allegations of corruption …

The Office of the Attorney General on 3rd June issued a 3-page press release titled ‘Freedom of Speech and Rule of Law,’ giving its view on freedom of speech, defamation, the Penjore case and its own powers. The highly legal language of the release soon had many people scratching their …

NA Human Rights Committee to review the case In a clear statement the Prime Minister Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering said that as far as he knows Penjore has not done anything against or defamed the government, the cabinet ministers and their agencies. Lyonchhen also made it clear for the second …

The Bhutanese in a telephonic press conference asked the US State Department Coordinator for Global COVID-19 Response, Gayle E. Smith, about what had happened to Bhutan’s request for around half a million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, when it’s FDA would approve its 60 million AstraZeneca doses for export and …

It was always evident that the ACC’s investigation of corruption allegations around Gypsum would be its most difficult case, and this paper said as much when they started their investigation.  The reason being that this was ACC’s first attempt at a cross border investigation and all the main information, wrong …

After spending 16 days in jail the thing that pains Penjore, 55 the most is that despite serving in the government (1990 to 2012) in the Agriculture Ministry where he set up the Central Machinery Unit in Bumthang and also helped set up regional branches in Trashigang and Gelephu, and …

On the 16th of April evening Bhutan got a rude awakening when the first community cases were detected from Phuentsholing as a mother and son tested positive from the community and 3 frontliners on quarantine duty also tested positive. At the time Bhutan had 941 cases with only 64 active …

Meanwhile sample survey in Bhutan shows 95% have developed antibodies after the first dose The plan in Bhutan is to have the second dose eight or twelve weeks after the first dose. However, now even the maximum planned gap of 12 weeks which ends by the end the June looks …

On the 4th of May ‘Penjore Penjore’ put up a post on his Facebook page asking for the resignation of the current Attorney General in relation to a news story. Two days later Penjore Penjore was arrested by the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) on 6th May and detained based on …

PM says no permission given to OAG to prosecute the case nor is any permission required The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in a press release issued on 6th May 2021 said that it has pursued ‘legal action’ against an individual with the alias ‘Penjore Penjore’ on social media. …