The Revenue Investigation Department, which is preparing to be liquidated, has filed cases against 177 people with a total of 6.93 billion 4.9 million claims in 8 months. According to the department, the cases were filed in various district courts during the investigation under the heading of revenue leakage, money laundering and foreign exchange embezzlement. 

According to the details released by the department, a total of 5.34 billion 7.615 billion 15 thousand claims have been filed under the revenue leakage heading. Of this, 2.61 billion 6.287 billion 13.285 million is a total of 2.73 billion 11.285 million is a fine. Cases have been filed against firms and individuals involved in such incidents after goods without invoices, undervalued goods, and goods imported by bypassing customs checkpoints were found. 

The department has filed cases against 75 defendants in the respective districts in the District Court, Lalitpur and four revenue offices outside the valley.  According to the department, the cases have been filed demanding fines and imprisonment for those involved in revenue leakage. According to Director General Tirtharaj Chiluwal, revenue evasion was found during the inspection of cargo containers entering Kathmandu from various checkpoints. Revenue leakage was found through illegal import of Chinese electronic cigarettes (vapes), undervaluation of goods including clothes, tobacco, gold and silver, machinery and tools, and illegal transactions. The department had seized a large quantity of vape imported from China stored in a warehouse in Lalitpur. The vape case was registered last Shrawan. The amount of vape alone was estimated at more than 200 million. The department has filed a case in the course of inspection of containers entering from the Terai and northern checkpoints and revenue evasion incidents during business transactions in various places in the valley. During this period, a business firm has deposited a deposit of 600 million 138 thousand rupees on the charge of revenue evasion.

According to department sources, a file worth nearly 3 billion rupees of revenue fraud involving big families is under consideration at the Government Attorney's Office. If the case is registered, businessmen and firms from high-ranking families will be taken to task, the source said. Director General of the department, Chiluwal, said that the transactions made by some firms and businessmen are in the investigation phase. He said that the names of the firms and businessmen cannot be disclosed as the investigation is ongoing.

Meanwhile, the Attorney General's Office had decided not to prosecute the case against World Link Communication, which the department had prepared with a claim to recover about 7 billion rupees for telecommunication service fees. The Government Attorney's Office, Lalitpur, had decided not to prosecute the case based on the revenue fraud report prepared by the Revenue Investigation Department, saying that World Link should pay telecommunication service fees. She had decided on the 8th to write to the Large Taxpayers Office and send the matter. There was also criticism over the decision. Department sources have said that if the report prepared with hard work is canceled, no one will take ownership of the work done by the employee and the security of the investigating employee will be threatened. An officer of the department assigned to the investigation regretted that the report they prepared with great effort was canceled without taking it into a case. 

Case with a claim of 170 million rupees in foreign exchange embezzlement  

Apart from revenue leakage, the department has filed 51 cases in the district court against 82 people on charges of foreign exchange embezzlement during this period with a claim of 169.3 million rupees. The Revenue Investigation Department has recovered 54.52 million rupees. A fine of 118.8 million rupees has been claimed. The number of cases finalized as per the target is low. The department has informed that 23.29 percent of the cases finalized during this period. 

Case filed for nearly Rs 1.5 billion in money laundering

The department has filed three cases for the first time in money laundering cases, with a claim of nearly Rs 1.5 billion. Four people have been named as defendants in the case, and a fine of Rs 472.269 crore has been established. The defendant has made a claim of Rs 945.739 crore as per the amount. According to the department, the case has been filed with a claim to recover Rs 1.4186 billion including fine and penalty.

According to Ashish Aryal, Information Officer and Deputy Secretary of the department, this is the first time the department has registered a case related to money laundering. The Department of Money Laundering had some time ago authorized the Revenue Department to prosecute cases based on the amount and its nature. Therefore, this is the first time that the department has filed a case of money laundering. Similarly, the Vehicle and Consignment Tracking System (VCTS) system introduced by the department has 320,000 users. The system, based on digital waves, has been used to monitor goods-carrying vehicles to prevent revenue leakage. It is based entirely on the goods transportation monitoring system. The department had implemented the system since Shrawan 2076.