KATHMANDU, OCTOBER 2

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority submitted its 33rd Annual Report to President Ramchandra Paudel today.

CIAA Chief Commissioner Prem Rai presented the annual report to the president amidst a ceremony organised at the Office of the President at Shital Niwas.

According to the report, the CIAA filed corruption cases against 766 individuals in 162 such cases in fiscal year 2022-23.

Among the defendants, 622 are men and 138 are women.

In the last fiscal, a total of 20,905 complaints were received at CIAA through different channels.

Most of the complaints were related to the local level government which accounted for 35.95 of the total complaints received, according to the CIAA. Likewise, it is said that altogether 18,799 complaints received in the last fiscal were cleared. Of them, an investigation was initiated on 1,333 complaints.

Similarly, 8,000 plus complaints have been kept on hold while the concerned institutions have been asked for required actions on 9,645 complaints. The CIAA registered 162 charge-sheets at the Special Court including 64 related to illegal benefits, 32 on bribe cases, 27 on losses to public properties and 13 on illegal income.

A version of this article appears in the print on October 3, 2023, of The Himalayan Times