Nepal Bribery Snares Aircraft Service Exec

Posted 8/6/24

Illinois aviations services provider AAR appears close to resolving bribery allegations involving the sale of used Airbus A330s at inflated prices to the Nepal Airlines, the flag carrier of Nepal.  A July 19 plea deal reached by Deepak Sharma, former President of International Supply Chain for AAR was usealed in the District of Columbia.  Sentancing is forthcoming.

On April 4, Nepal’s anti-graft body completed its five-year probe into the $209.6-million Airbus deal, the largest ever in Nepal’s aviation history. The body concluded that Nepal Airlines' procurement of two wide-body jets caused the government a loss of $13.38 million. The case has implicated 32 individuals.

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