Kathmandu, May 15 -- The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Thursday filed a corruption case at the Special Court against 16 individuals and two companies, seeking over Rs3.21 billion in damages in connection with the procurement of Telecommunications Traffic Monitoring and Fraud Control System (Teramocs) for the Nepal Telecommunications Authority.

The accused include Nepali Congress lawmaker and former minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet and former Law Secretary Dhanaraj Gyawali.

Also named in the case are the then chairpersons of the Nepal Telecommunications Authority Digambar Jha and Purushottam Khanal; then members Dhanaraj Gyawali and Tikaprasad Upreti; directors Bijay Kumar Ray, Surendralal Hada and Dipesh ...