In the past 10 months, the Revenue Investigation Department has filed a case in the High and District Courts with a demand of more than 10 billion for revenue leakage and foreign exchange embezzlement.

During this period, cases have been filed in various courts against 321 people on charges of involvement in foreign currency embezzlement and revenue leakage. According to Bigo, a jail sentence of up to 5 years has been demanded against them for recovering the leaked revenue. 

Revenue leakage has been seen mostly in stolen electronic cigarettes (vapes), gold, shoes and liquor bags from China. Taking advantage of the open border of the Terai, most of the clothes (sari, kurtasalwar and short-shooting) have been smuggled from India and the revenue has been cheated. Issue of fake bills is also an area of ​​revenue leakage.

Nepal Can Move Pvt. Ltd.'s server was operated from Australia and a case was filed against 6 people, demanding a penalty of 1 billion 37 million and demanding a prison sentence. According to the department, the biggest investor of the company, which was opened with the aim of operating a courier service, was residing in Australia and conducting business from Nepal. Similarly, the second biggest issue of revenue leakage during this period is theft of gold and silver. A case has been filed with a demand of 1 billion 34 crores on the charge of defrauding the revenue. There are 47 defendants in the case.   According to Chandi Prasad Ghimire, director general of the

department, 48 cases have been registered with a demand of around 5 billion for revenue leakage during this period. According to him, a lawsuit has been filed against 160 people for revenue leakage from July to the end of May of this year and the demand is to recover the leaked revenue. Also, according to the law, they have been demanded to be imprisoned for up to 5 years . According to the details released by the

department on Friday, the prosecution has been prosecuted in the High Court with a demand of 2.59 billion bigos and 5.19 billion as a 100% penalty related to revenue leakage. During this period, the department has demanded a bond of 1.16 billion from various firms and companies after determining that there is a revenue leakage. According to Ghimire, 55.18 million of the bond amount of revenue leakage has been sent to the Internal Revenue Department and the Customs Department for recovery. 

Cases have been filed in different district courts against 161 people for misappropriation of foreign currency. More than 5 billion have been demanded in 117 cases including fines and fines. The largest amount of foreign currency embezzlement is 25 million 19 million 24 thousand Euros and US dollars recovered from Kathmandu's Tokha in the first week of March. In the incident, the driver is in custody, while Narayan Poudel of Sindhupalchok, who is said to be the main accused, is absconding, the department said. 4 crore 24 million fines have been collected from the action taken during the inspection of the 'Vehicle and Consignment Tracking System' (VCTS) used by vehicles during the transportation of goods.