Nepal, May 16 -- The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case against former Minister Mohan Basnet, 15 others, and two companies at the Special Court in the Telecommunication Traffic Monitoring and Fraud Control System (TERAMOCS) procurement case.

However, the CIAA has spared Gyanendra Karki, who approved the supplementary budget for the project.

The CIAA filed the case on Thursday, citing a financial loss of over Rs 3.21 billion. With the case now in court, Basnet has been automatically suspended from his position as a Member of Parliament.

The Nepal Telecommunications Authority had submitted its annual program for the fiscal year (2017/18) to the Ministry of Communication and Informati...