Kathmandu, May 7 -- The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case against 14 individuals, including former finance minister Gyanendra Bahadur Karki and former finance secretary Shankar Adhikari, over alleged irregularities in the construction of Pokhara International Airport.

The case was filed at the Special Court on Thursday.

Those charged also include former secretaries Kewal Bhandari, Maheshwar Neupane and Suresh Acharya, serving secretary Danduraj Ghimire, and then director generals of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, Pradeep Adhikari and Sanjeev Gautam.

Officials of the Chinese company China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd and its representatives have also been named as defendants.

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