The Revenue Investigation Department has filed a case in the High and District Courts against 321 people with a demand of more than 10 billion for revenue leakage and foreign exchange embezzlement in 10 months. During this period, cases have been filed against them in various courts for their involvement in foreign exchange embezzlement and revenue leakage.
They have also been demanded to be sentenced to 5 years in prison after recovering the leaked revenue.
Among the revenue leakages, electronic cigarettes (vapes), gold, shoes and liquor bottles, etc., stolen from China have been seen the most. Taking advantage of the open border of the Terai, it has been found that most of the clothes (sari, kurta-suruwal and short-shooting) have been smuggled and evaded the revenue. 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 has been filed against 6 people, demanding a fine of 1 billion 37 crores and a prison sentence. It was found that the investors of the company, which was opened with the aim of operating a courier service, were operating business from Nepal while staying in Australia.
The second biggest revenue leakage case in 10 months is theft of gold and silver. A case has been filed with a demand of 1 billion 34 crores on the charge of evading revenue. There are 47 defendants in that case.
During this period, 48 cases have been registered with a demand of around 5 billion for revenue leakage. From July to the end of May of the current year, a case has been filed against 160 people for revenue leakage and it has been demanded to recover the leaked revenue from them.
According to the law, they have been demanded to be imprisoned for up to 5 years. According to the details released by the department last Friday, the prosecution has been prosecuted in the High Court with a demand of 2.59 billion bigos and 5.19 billion 100% penalty related to revenue leakage.
During this period, the department has demanded a bond of 1.16 billion from various firms and companies as a result of 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 against 161 people in various district courts for misappropriation of foreign currency. It is mentioned in the data released by the department that more than 5 billion has been demanded in 117 cases including fines and fines. 250 million 19 million 24 thousand euros and US dollars were recovered from the Tokha of Kathmandu in the first week of March last year in foreign currency embezzlement. The department said that while the driver is in custody, Narayan Poudel of Sindhupalchok, who is said to be the main accused, is absconding.
