KATHMANDU, Feb 25: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed graft cases against 17 individuals at the special court on Friday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: Contractor Bikram Pandey, who was acquitted in a case filed against him at the Special Court on charges of corruption in the national pride Sikta irrigation project, has become the urban development minister.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: The Special Court has sentenced Raj Narayan Pathak, the former commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), and a college administrator Lambodar Neupane, who bribed Pathak, to three years in jail and Rs 3.9 million in fine.

KATHMANDU, Jan 6: The Supreme Court has asked the government why it shouldn’t scrap the legal provision that prevents the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), the constitutional anti-corruption watchdog, from investigating the policy decisions taken by the Council of Ministers.

KATHMANDU, Dec 22: A complaint was filed at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) against the officials of the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday, accusing the officials of committing corruption by acquiring illegal assets.

NEPALGUNJ, Dec 12: The Nepalgunj-based office of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has registered more complaints related to corruption from the local levels.

KATHMANDU, Nov 18: The Election Commission (EC) has sought clarification from the chief of Chhipaharmai Rural Municipality and the chief administrative officer for appointing teachers in violation of the Election Code of Conduct.

JANAKPURDHAM, Nov 4: A team of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested Senior Sub Inspector Devaki Lal Chaudhary of the Border Police Station Jatahi in Dhanusha along with bribe money.

KATHMANDU, Sept 24: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case against six people for transferring the ownership of public land to the name of individuals.

Corruption on the rise in Nepal

September 22, 2022 14:06 pm

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: Even as corruption has been on the rise in Nepal, the cases registered by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority are becoming weaker. Of the cases registered by the Authority (CIAA) at the Special Court in the financial year 2078/079, corruption was proved in only about 39 percent cases. The Special Court has acquitted many corruption-accused, citing lack of enough evidence.

KATHMANDU, Sept 3: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a charge sheet against five people including the then chief of the Land and Water Resources Management Office, Jumla, Sher Bahadur Shrestha, for embezzling funds by selling wire netting meant for embankment construction.

KATHMANDU, June 7: The annual reports of four different constitutional commissions were tabled in the National Assembly, the upper house of the Federal Parliament today.

JANAKPUR, April 11: A team from the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested the chief of Dhanusha Land Revenue Office, Sunil Kumar Jha, on the charge of taking a bribe early today.

KATHMANDU, Feb 21: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has filed a case against Binod Kumar Yadav, the then lab in-charge of Shahid Gangalal National Heart Center, Bansbari, Kathmandu, accusing him of committing corruption by preparing counterfeit PCR reports.

KATHMANDU, Jan 27: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority has filed a case at the Special Court on Wednesday against former captain of the Nepali national football team Hari Khadka for taking a job in the Nepal Police by submitting fake educational qualification certificates.

KATHMANDU, Nov 29: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a charge sheet against the headmaster and the accountant of Anirudra Public Secondary School of Yasodhara Rural Municipality in Kapilvastu for embezzling Rs 782,651 from the schools' funds.

KATHMANDU, Nov 15: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has presented its annual report for the fiscal year 2077-78 BS (2020-21) before President Bidya Devi Bhandari.

NEPALGUNJ, Sept 28: Both the Ministry of Irrigation and the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) have formed separate probe committees to investigate into the irregularities in the multi-billion rupees Sikta Irrigation Project. It has already been a month and a half since the two committees returned to Kathmandu after conducting their investigations at the project site. But their investigations are nowhere near conclusion.

CIAA begins quizzing Sikta officials

September 18, 2018 11:10 am

KATHMANDU, Sept 18: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has begun interrogating project chiefs, engineers and employees who worked for the Sikta Irrigation Project, a project of national pride, since its inception.