The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) registered a case against former Minister Chiranjivi Wagle at the Special Court Wednesday furnishing details of the proof of his illegal earnings worth RS 32,955,072.

Wagle failed to show the earning sources for the said amount of property even after repeated interrogation at the CIAA. The CIAA following investigations into corruption charges against Wagle concluded that his legally earned property amounted to RS 67,00,477.

The Special Court began the hearing on the case at 11:00 am in the morning. The hearing continued for three hours. Wagle’s son Devendra Wagle who has been charged of being an accomplice to the misappropriations carried out by his father was not present and is learnt to be absconding.

Wagle had come down heavily on the CIAA and had maintained that the action taken him was no more than a move to defame democracy. He is the first politician to be booked for corruption after the restoration of democracy in 1990. Wagle had served as Ministers for four years in different governments formed after 1990.

If proved guilty Wagle is likely to get a jail term of two years apart from paying back the equal amount of money, which he has misappropriated.