International donors in Nepal on Monday suspended millions of dollars in funding. The move follows reports that the Education Minister is being investigated by a parliamentary committee over undisclosed financial irregularities. He denies any wrongdoing.

Nepal's anticorruption commission says that tens of thousands of government employees, including teachers, police, and senior bureaucrats, have been using fake university degrees. The Commission for Investigation on Abuse of Authority says it suspects that 10 percent of the Himalayan kingdom's 140,000 schoolteachers are using diplomas purchased from India.