KATHMANDU, June 16: Sanjiv Gautam, former director general of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has been sent to prison for investigation under the charge of corruption in the Pokhara Regional International Airport (PRIA).
The special court has ordered Gautam to be remanded in custody for trial in the corruption case. Gautam, who appeared in court on Monday for the remand, was ordered to be sent to prison by a bench of special court judges Narayan Prasad Poudel, Hemanta Rawal and Dilli Ratna Shrestha, as per the special court.
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Gautam, the then Director General of the CAAN, and Pradeep Adhikari, the then Director of the PRIA Construction Project, are accused of embezzling Rs 503.44 million from the authority's separate budget by unnaturally increasing the cost without spending the 2.8 million US dollars agreed upon in the engineering procurement and construction agreement.
The opinion recommendation submitted with the plan to commit embezzlement was approved and a contract worth Rs 428.936 million was signed with the continuation of the same approval.
The CAAN filed a case claiming a loss of Rs 89.5 million from Gautam and committed an offence under Section 17 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 2002.
