Khum Bahadur Khadka is a former Minister of the Interior of Nepal and an influential leader of Nepali Congress Party. After some corruption allegations, he was not in active politics since about 2006. He was convicted on 13 August 2012 with several counts of corruption, slapping him one-and-half year jail sentence along with a penalty of Rs 9.47 million (US$110,000 approximately). His corruption escapades were mostly during the period when he held a number of high-ranking posts, including home minister and local development minister in the 1990s.
