Nepal's ex-Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane was held in a cooperative-fraud case; the Attorney General moved to drop organised-crime and money-laundering charges and the Kaski court approved the change in May 2026

On 23 May 2025, Nepal's Supreme Court upheld a Tulsipur High Court order sending Rastriya Swatantra Party chairman and former Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane to judicial custody, dismissing a habeas corpus petition filed by his wife. The Kathmandu Post reported an audit found Rs 109.936 million deposited into Gorkha Media Network accounts, which he co-ran before politics, and Rs 20 million allegedly moved to his personal account from a cooperative; he was suspended as a lawmaker.