The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed a corruption and money-laundering case against Land Revenue Office, Bhaktapur official Yadavnath Acharya and five others at the Special Court on November 2, 2026, alleging that Acharya amassed illegal assets worth Rs 97.2 million through abuse of his position. The six defendants include Acharya’s wife and daughter, according to a press statement issued by the commission on Monday.
Allegations against the Bhaktapur official
Acharya is a non-gazetted first-class officer, known as a Nayab Subba, at the Land Revenue Office in Bhaktapur. The commission alleges that he accumulated assets worth Rs 97.2 million unlawfully by abusing his office. The sum is equivalent to Rs 9.72 crore, placing the alleged assets close to Rs 100 million.
The CIAA has brought both corruption and money-laundering allegations in the case. Its filing places the claims before the Special Court, which is the court named in the commission’s announcement. The commission’s stated allegation concerns the origin and accumulation of assets; the case itself does not establish that the defendants are guilty.
The press statement identifies Acharya as the central public official in the case and says five other people have also been named. His wife and daughter are among those defendants. The summary of the announcement does not identify the remaining three defendants or provide details about their alleged roles, so the specific claims against each of the five other people were not available in the information released.
Case filed at the Special Court
The filing on November 2 marks the commission’s formal move to bring the allegations before the Special Court. It combines corruption and money-laundering claims in proceedings involving a serving land revenue officer and members of his family. The commission’s announcement does not provide further details about how it calculated the Rs 97.2 million figure or what assets are included in that amount.
Nor does the information provided specify the period over which the assets were allegedly accumulated, the transactions the commission is challenging, or the evidence it has presented to support its claims. No breakdown of the alleged amount or explanation of the alleged money-laundering activity was included in the summary of the statement. Those details would be necessary to describe the individual allegations more fully and have not been stated here.
Allegations remain to be tested
The case concerns accusations made by the anti-graft body, rather than a finding by the court. Acharya and the other defendants are accused in the filing, but the information available does not say that the Special Court has reached a decision. The case will therefore need to be considered through the judicial process, and the allegations should not be treated as proven facts.
The commission’s Monday statement announced the case against all six defendants and identified the amount allegedly amassed by Acharya. Further information about the charges, the evidence, the other defendants and the court proceedings was not included in the announcement as described. Until such details are made public, the central reported facts are the filing date, the names of the public officer’s wife and daughter among the six defendants, and the CIAA’s allegation that Acharya accumulated Rs 97.2 million in illegal assets through abuse of office.
