Three cases against 6 defendants for alleged revenue leakage of more than 25 crores
A case has been initiated against the vehicle owner and the office assistant after the main accused of 19,000 electronic cigarettes (Vape) entered through the Corolla checkpoint of Mustang could not be found. The Revenue Investigation Department has filed a case against them after they could not identify the main accused who smuggled vape seized from Mustang last December.
According to the department, three separate cases have been filed against 6 defendants in the Patan, Biratnagar and Janakpur High Courts with the demand of 258.3 million 92,000 recovery and imprisonment for the defendants for the charge of evading the revenue by stealing and importing goods including clothes seized from the south border along with vape.
Chandi Prasad Ghimire, director general of the department, said that the case was filed after investigating the leakage incidents that have been stuck for a long time. The case was filed on the basis of the investigation conducted by the department itself, Itahari and Pathalaiya office.
Director General Ghimire informed that the case was filed because the vehicle and driver used in transporting the vape imported from Mustang were the same and he admitted that he had brought it himself. Even though they investigated the suspicion of the involvement of more people in the vape smuggling, the driver himself said that he brought the Corolla from the border. The department has not found vape importers.
According to the investigation department, a case has been filed in the Patan High Court by making an office assistant and a businessman working under contract at Korola Naka as defendants. Vep's vehicle, which was going to be taken from Corolla to Beni via Jomsom, was seized by the police near the check post of Gharpazhong rural municipality-4. A case has been filed against the vehicle driver Ghyamcho Gurung and Tasi Norbu Gurung, a contract office assistant at the customs office, for being involved in smuggling the vape.
A lawsuit has been filed against the driver Ghyamcho and Tasi Nurbu in the case of vape theft, with a claim that a fine of 46.6612 thousand rupees and 100% penalty should be collected in total of 932 million 24 thousand 92 rupees. According to the department, they have also been asked to be jailed. Driver Ghyamcho has given a statement that he went to China and loaded vape in the vehicle. But the owner of the goods has not said.
It has been claimed that Tasi Nurbu, the office assistant, should be sentenced to half the sentence of the main accused for playing a supporting role in the theft. There is also a demand to seize the vehicle of C 1 B 6999 loaded with Vape. According to department sources, after the Mustang police seized the vape, Tasi, the assistant of the customs office, absconded with the revenue of other goods imported from the customs. The driver Ghyamcho is in custody.
The local administration says that since there is no structure for staff and police at Korola checkpoint, theft is easy. "It seems that Tasi, the office assistant, absconded with the revenue payment receipt and money," the source said.
department has filed a case against Sonu Kanu, the proprietor of Krishna store, with a demand of Rs.
With the permission of the investigation department, the Itahari office has filed a case against Sonu, demanding a jail sentence. Itahari office filed a case after it was found that Sonu had stolen goods and did not pay customs duty, VAT and income tax during a search of a store in Bhadrapur, Jhapa last October.
A case has been filed against three people in Janakpur Temporary Ijalas with a demand to recover Rs. Karma Sah Sonar of Bara Kalaiya sub-metropolitan-5 has been made the main accused in the
case. Shankar Prasad Sonar alias Shankar Shah Sonar of Birgunj Metropolitan Municipality-28, Indra Kumari Pariyar of Kalaiya Sub-Metropolitan Municipality-5 Bara has been demanded half of the punishment of the main accused in Chori Paithari.
