4 including former NAC chair and general manager found guilty, minister acquitted in corruption case

The Special Court has found four board members of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) including the then chairman and general manager of NAC guilty of corruption in the purchase of two wide-body aircraft of the corporation. Seven of the aircraft suppliers have also been found guilty.

A bench of Special Court Judges Tek Narayan Kunwar, Tej Narayan Singh Rai, and Ritendra Thapa found the then NAC general manager Sugat Ratna Kansakar, Tourism Secretary and the then NAC board chairman Shankar Prasad Adhikari, the then director general of the Department of Customs Shishir Dhungana, and Joint Secretary Buddhi Sagar Lamichhane guilty. All four are NAC board members.