- Monday, 8 December 2025
CIAA files corruption case against 55 individuals, former ministers, secretaries
Former Minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat, Bhim Acharya and late Post Bahadur Bogati, from left to right.
By Sapana Thami, Kathmandu, Dec 7: The Commission for the Investigation
of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed corruption case at the Special Court in
Kathmandu against 55 individuals that include former government ministers and secretaries
such as Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat, Bhim Prasad Acharya, late Post Bahadur Bogati,
Ram Kumar Shrestha and Dipak Chandra Amatya.
The CIAA has charged the 55 individuals with misusing over 8 billion 367
million rupees in connection to the construction project of the Pokhara Regional
International Airport, according to Ganesh Bahadur Adhikari, assistant spokesperson
of the CIAA.
The Chinese constructor of the project and its representatives in Nepal
have also been sued in the court.
The CIAA filed the case today as per section 8 of the Prevention of Corruption
Act, 2002.
