Record graft case filed over China-funded Pokhara airport

Charge sheet claims officials colluded with Chinese contractor to inflate estimate by $74 million, causing the biggest single-project loss in Nepal’s history.

Nepal’s anti-graft body on Sunday filed a corruption case at the Special Court against 55 individuals, including five former ministers and 10 former secretaries, as well as a company over irregularities in the construction of the $215.96 million China-funded international airport project in Pokhara.