KATHMANDU, Sept 22: The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has submitted its annual report of the fiscal year 2021/22 to President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Sept 19: The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a case against the Under Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Pramod Nepal at the special court on Sunday.

GORKHA, August 23: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has started an investigation into the construction of a bridge where there is no road. The central office of the CIAA has started an investigation into the concrete bridge constructed over the Daraudi River in Gorkha.

KATHMANDU, August 18: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) in Surkhet has seized the documents of Shree Jana Namuna Secondary School in Birendranagar Municipality-8.

BIRENDRANAGAR, August 13: The Surkhet-based office of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has seized the documents of the Madhyapaschim University.

KATHMANDU, August 10: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed a charge-sheet at the Special Court on Wednesday, accusing Sub-engineer Rambabu Yadav of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Division No. 2 Okhaldhunga, of submitting fake academic certificates in order to receive benefits and privileges of a government position.

KATHMANDU, August 9: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Tuesday filed five cases against 13 individuals accused of being involved in corruption by producing fake documents.

KATHMANDU, August 7: More and more complaints are being filed at the central office of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA). As many as 1,432 complaints have been filed at the CIAA as of August 5 of the current fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, August 4: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) registered a corruption case against six people including the then secretary of Madhesh Province at the Special Court in Kathmandu on Wednesday. The CIAA has accused them of carrying out financial irregularities worth Rs 103.3 million in the name of the Beti Padhau, Beti Bachau (Educate Daughters, Save Daughters) campaign.

KATHMANDU, Aug 3: A senior government official currently serving at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) has been arrested  red-handed along with Rs 2.2 million in cash received as bribe from service seekers.

JANAKPUR, July 18: A team of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has raided Sahidnagar Municipality Office, Dhanusha. The CIAA team from Bardibas is checking the municipality files.

KATHMANDU, June 21: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed cases at the Special Court against 17 individuals, accusing them of making fake driving licenses.

DHANGADHI, April 27: Hundreds of bighas of government land in Bhimdatta Municipality of Kanchanpur have been illegally encroached upon, sold and leased, according to an investigation report by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA).

KATHMANDU, March 31: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Thursday filed a case against 13 officials of Likhu Tamakoshi Rural Municipality, Ramechhap, on charge of misappropriating state funds worth Rs 42.10 million.

KATHMANDU, March 29: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case against six people including the then chief of the Tribhuvan University Service Commission, Parashuram Koirala. A lawsuit has been filed against them for allegedly tampering with the results of an examination with malicious intent to benefit another person.

MAHENDRANAGAR, March 21: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) office in Kanchanpur has seized documents from the  Bhimdatta Municipality Office for investigation.

KATHMANDU, March 18: A corruption case has been filed against nine people including Gokul Sharma Poudel, the then acting chief of the Transportation Management Office, Kaski. The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed the case at the Special Court, accusing them of taking bribes from those who had failed the driver's license test but were passed later.

KATHMANDU, Jan 26: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a case against Ram Prasad Ghimire, direct general of the Department of Mines and Geology (DoMG), on the charge of carrying out revenue leakage worth Rs 1.26 billion.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: A complaint has been filed against the Dhurmus-Suntali Foundation at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), citing a possible embezzlement of funds collected for the construction of the Gautam Budhha International Cricket Stadium  by the Foundation .

KATHMANDU, Jan 3:  The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed corruption cases against 12 officials of Agriculture Inputs Company (AIC) on charge of their involvement in the import of substandard fertilizers.

KATHMANDU, Dec 16: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a case at the Special Court against four employees of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) alleging corruption in the contract of a building under-construction in Teku.

KATHMANDU, Nov 15: The irregularities related to federal affairs and local governments are still on the top list of complaints that the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) received in the last fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, Sept 29: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse and Authority (CIAA) regional office in Bardibas raided the office of Chief Minister in Province 2 on Wednesday afternoon.

KATHMANDU, August 23: A complaint has been filed at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) against United Distributors Nepal, a subsidiary of Vishal Group, which allegedly received undue benefits by making the government revise import taxes on chocolates.

DHARAN, August 12: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) raided the BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, August 1: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has asked the Securities Board of Nepal (Sebon) to provide necessary documents to investigate Sebon Chairman Bhisma Raj Dhungana’s alleged involvement in insider trading.

KATHMANDU, June 23: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Wednesday filed a case against three persons including Chudamani Sharma, former director general of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD), at the Special Court on the charge of revenue leakage worth over Rs 1 billion.

KATHMANDU, May 7: Supreme Court has ordered the government release former Chief Commissioner of Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Deep Basnyat on bail.

KATHMANDU, March 29: The Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) to submit the latter's official decision not to file charge-sheets against former prime ministers Madhav Kumar Nepal and Baburam Bhattarai over the Lalita Niwas land scam.

KATHMANDU, Feb 28: The Chief Commissioner of Commission for Investigation for Abuse of Authority (CIAA), Prem Rai, has said that the anti-graft body won’t take action against anyone on prejudice and vengeance.

KATHMANDU, Feb 10: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has maintained that the government will not stop the Commission of Investigation for Abuse of Authority (CIAA) from taking action against anyone involved in corruption and abuse of authority.

KATHMANDU, Feb 3: Dr Ganesh Raj Joshi, acting chief commissioner at the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), resigned from his post on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, Jan 10: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Sunday filed a corruption case at the Special Court against 17 people including the then chief of the Survey Office in Lalitpur, Buddhiman Jaisi, on the charge of transferring the ownership of land on the banks of the Karmanasa River in Lalitpur to a private housing company.

KATHMANDU, Dec 25: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a total 441 cases against 1,212 individuals on corruption charges in the Fiscal Year 2019/20.

KATHMANDU, Dec 24: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has said it received the largest number of complaints against irregularities related to federal affairs and local governments in 2019/20.

KATHMANDU, Dec 16: A writ has been filed at the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon against the recently-issued ordinance by the government amending the Constitution Council (Functions, Duties, Powers and Procedures) Act (First Amendment).

KATHMANDU, Dec 15: The government on Tuesday introduced an ordinance to amend the existing Constitutional Council (Functions, Duties, Powers and Procedures).

KATHMANDU, Dec 15: The Constitutional Council (CC) meeting which was supposed to take place earlier this morning has been rescheduled for 5 pm today. The meeting was postponed after speaker of the House of Representatives (HoR), Agni Sapkota skipped the meeting.

KATHMANDU, Dec 13: A meeting of the Constitutional Council that was scheduled to be held on Sunday has been cancelled due to lack of quorum.

KATHMANDU, Dec 10: A meeting of the Constitutional Council will take place coming Sunday to discuss filling longstanding vacancies at various constitutional bodies including the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), Election Commission (EC), National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and National Women's Commission (NWC).

KATHMANDU, Nov 8: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has carried out 30 sting operations in the last six months of the current fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, Nov 8: An engineer at the Belkotgadhi Municipality Office has been arrested by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority on the charge of taking bribes from a service seeker.

BUTWAL, Oct 16: A police head constable along with his wife was held on the charge of taking a bribe of Rs 400,000 in Rupandehi on Friday.

CIAA launches probe into irregularity at COVID-19 hospital of BPKIHS, Dharan

KANCHANPUR, Sept 29: The Kanchanpur office of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has seized the documents of Patan Municipality Office in Baitadi district.

This is the question people ask when the country’s anti-corruption watchdog fails on its duty to control corruption. They ask this when they see that the highest anti-graft body is being selective in its prosecution, sparing those with nexus to power centers, and witch-hunting those with minor cases of bribery. This is the question people ask when the corruption cases peak and yet the proven and suspected corrupt walk freely, when their corruption related deeds are not even investigated. We ask this question in this space with the hope and expectation that the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) lives up to its mandate, and that it emerges active and strong to combat corruption which is rampant from the center to the periphery.

KATHMANDU, Sept 15: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a graft case at the Special Court against former vice chancellor of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Balbhadra Prasad Das, on the charge of amassing property worth Rs 77.19 million illegally.

KATHMANDU, Sept 15: The decision of the Chief Commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), Nabin Kumar Ghimire, to give a clean chit to those involved in the multi-billion rupees scam involving the procurement of land for Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) despite adequate evidence has brought the anti-graft body under serious public scrutiny.

KATHMANDU, Aug 20: In an attempt to give a way out for the long standing controversy of the dedicated feeder charge, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has directed the Ministry of Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation to charge the industries with the premium fee only on the basis of the Time of Day (ToD) metering.

KATHMANDU, Aug 12: Chief Commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Nabin Ghimire has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19).