Reuters
Gopal Sharma
09 Dec 2026
An anti-graft panel in Nepal has charged 55 officials, including five former ministers and a Chinese contracting company, with corruption in the construction of a Chinese-funded airport in west Nepal, officials said on Tuesday.
The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed the case at the anti-corruption Special Court on Sunday, charging the officials and the Chinese firm with illegally inflating the cost of building the Pokhara International Airport by more than $74 million.
Yagya Raj Regmi, assistant spokesperson of the Special Court, said CIAA had demanded the inflated amount of the costs to be repaid as fines by each of the accused, including China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd that constructed the project.
None of the accused could be reached for comment.
“The Special Court will now send notices to each of those charged in the case and begin hearing only after receiving statements from them. We cannot say now when the court will finish the hearing and give judgement,” Regmi told Reuters...
