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Nepal Frees Former Premier Held Over Deadly Crackdown on Youth Protests

ID: 97a9a256-13a0-5526-8c88-e64a904af6fc

STIX ID: report--97a9a256-13a0-5526-8c88-e64a904af6fc

Feed Name: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Date Published: 2026-04-09

Date Updated: 2026-05-22

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Following a Supreme Court order, Nepal released former prime minister K.P. Sharma Oli and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak while investigations continue into a 2025 police crackdown that resulted in 76 deaths and led a high-level commission to recommend criminal prosecution; separately, anti-corruption authorities charged ex-speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara and his son over an alleged 2022 gold-smuggling scheme that concealed gold in e-cigarettes.

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