Nepal: Corruption case filed against 18 people including telecom chief

Kathmandu: Nepal’s anti-graft body on Sunday filed a corruption case against 18 people including former and incumbent managing directors of the government-owned Nepal Telecom.

The case was filed by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) at the Special Court over alleged irregularities in the contract extension for maintaining Nepal Telecom’s billing system, according to CIAA spokesperson Rajendra Kumar Paudel.