{"id":307000,"date":"2026-07-14T22:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=307000"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:20:04","slug":"nepal-telecoms-former-managing-director-sunil-poudel-has-been-convicted-in-another-case-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/nepal-telecoms-former-managing-director-sunil-poudel-has-been-convicted-in-another-case-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Telecom&#8217;s former managing director Sunil Poudel has been convicted in another case."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: The Special Court has convicted former Managing Director of Nepal Telecom, Sunil Poudel, of amassing property through illegal means. <\/p>\n<p>A three-member bench of Special Court Chairman Sudarshan Dev Bhatta and Justices Hemanta Rawal and Dilli Ratna Shrestha handed down the jail term to Poudel for 2 years and 6 months. Out of this, an additional sentence of 6 months has been added for corruption while holding public office. <\/p>\n<p>The court also ordered to confiscate property worth Rs 127,75,70,237 of Paudel and pay the fine as appropriate. In addition to this, he will also have to pay a compensation fee of Rs 5,102,809 as per the Crime Victims Protection Act. <\/p>\n<p>The court also directed the court not to confiscate the properties owned by Poudel as there was no clear basis for his involvement in the case. <\/p>\n<p>Of the total earnings earned by Poudel, only Rs 2.21 crore has been revealed. The Special Court has ruled that the remaining Rs 12.36 crore was the assets earned through corruption. <\/p>\n<p>Poudel has already been convicted in a corruption case related to digital payment gateway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: The Special Court has convicted former Managing Director of Nepal Telecom, Sunil Poudel, of amassing property through illegal means. A three-member bench of Special Court Chairman Sudarshan Dev Bhatta and Justices Hemanta Rawal and Dilli Ratna Shrestha handed down the jail term to Poudel for 2 years and 6 months. Out of this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":258645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307001,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307000\/revisions\/307001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/258645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}