The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed a corruption case in the Special Court on Sunday, fixing the amount at around 8 billion rupees.
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A corruption case has been filed against 55 people, including 5 former ministers and 10 former secretaries, in the case of irregularities in the construction of Pokhara Regional International Airport. The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority filed a corruption case in the Special Court on Sunday, fixing a fine of around 8 billion rupees.
The CIAA has filed a case against former ministers Post Bahadur Bogati (late), Ram Sharan Mahat, Deepak Amatya, Ram Kumar Shrestha and Bhim Acharya. Among the defendants, Congress leader Mahat is the then Finance Minister, while the remaining 4 are former Tourism Ministers.
According to the CIAA, suspended Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal Pradeep Adhikari and former Director Murari Bhandari have also been made defendants. Both are also defendants in the Nalinchok Heliport construction irregularities.
The then coordinator of the airport construction study task force, Ram Krishna Timalsena, Sureshman Shrestha, Madhu Kumar Marasini, and 10 former secretaries, who are also former registrars of the Supreme Court, have also been made defendants.
Pokhara Airport is a project of national pride built with the help of a loan from China. The subcommittee under the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives had also directed the Authority to investigate the airport scam case in 2082 Baisakh, showing reservations.
The subcommittee had submitted a report to the committee claiming that around 10 billion rupees had been involved in corruption in the airport construction. The committee had sent it to the Authority for further investigation. Seven months after the committee submitted its report, the Authority took the case to the special court on Sunday to conclude the investigation.
