Kathmandu: Nepal’s anti-graft body on Sunday filed corruption cases at the Special Court against 55 individuals, including five former ministers and several former government secretaries, and a Chinese construction company in connection with irregularities in the construction of the Pokhara Regional International Airport.

The China-funded Pokhara International Airport in western Pokhara has long been mired in controversy over alleged irregularities. Finally, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), the constitutional anti-corruption body, registered the corruption cases against them in court. It is one of several corruption cases that have plagued projects involving Chinese contractors or suppliers in Nepal.

The corruption cases were filed based on an estimated

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