The Valley Crime Investigation Office has handed over further investigation to the Revenue Investigation Department in the case of seizure of foreign currency worth 25 million rupees from a truck going to Rasuwa on Monday night. But will the revenue find out the owner of so much foreign currency? The department has started an investigation into the violation of the Foreign Exchange (Regulation) Act, 2019, after obtaining permission from the Patan High Court.

Why is this question so important, because even before this, the revenue office has completed the investigation without finding the owner in similar incidents. Let's look at the incident of last December. 86 thousand pieces of vape were found from a warehouse in Imadol. And two people who were waiting in the warehouse were also arrested. But in this incident, they could not find out who was the owner of the warehouse and Vep . They were released last February after a person with the surname Sherpa posted a bond of 250 million to the Revenue Investigation Department. In the last two weeks of December, 120,000 pieces of vape, which were brought to Nepal by evading revenue, were seized from the northern border and from Terai districts while being taken to Madhesh. Even in these incidents, the main person could not be identified .  Even after months of

incident, revenue has not been able to identify the owner of the vape . A revenue officer said, 'It is not easy to find the owner in this incident like the vape incident.' The officer gave an example of the fact that most of those who were arrested while carrying smuggled gold from Tatopani and Kerung were only moneylenders or middlemen and said that the case of illegal money is also of the same nature. He said that most of the illegal business done by the Chinese using Nepalis is similar. 

The police have so far only arrested Kusang Lama, the driver of the truck called 'Fuchche', in the case of illegal money recovery . A police officer involved in the investigation said that no 'clue' was found to find the owner even from the details on Kusang's mobile phone. A revenue officer said that some serious questions have arisen in this incident. This amount of money is sought to be paid for which item or service transaction? Due to the recovery of such a large amount of money at one time, the foreign currency used to go out of the country in this way even before this ? He said that the answer to such a question would not be so easy to find until the owner of the illegal foreign currency was found. Chandi Prasad Ghimire, Director General of the Revenue Research Department, said that the money was sent to Kerung to pay for some item.

As the amount is of large consequence, the revenue officials said that this amount may be related to the incident of illegal gold smuggling. Kusang, who was arrested, has been involved in gold smuggling in the past and the investigating officers have doubts about this. 

In his initial statement with the police, Lama, the driver of Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality-1, is expressing his ignorance about the amount he is going to take to Kerung. It seems that the container No. 7 B 1652 seized with the money was bought in the name of his mother. The curiosity has arisen as to how the revenue will find the answer to the question that Kusang did not know even after making a false bottom in the container by keeping it in the garage for three weeks. 

Tulsi Prasad Bhattarai, head of Rasuwa Customs, a trade point with China, said that gold was seized three times during his tenure, but the owner was not found in all three cases. "No one who brings gold is telling the truth." No matter how much you try to deceive, the owner does not tell you that it is mine, he said, "Those who bring the gold are drivers, laborers or small traders from the border area and it seems that they are only being used by smugglers."