Electric vehicles have been found to have been imported through the Korala border checkpoint in Mustang in accordance with the rules. The report submitted by the committee formed by the Customs Department regarding the inspection and import of electric vehicles states that the vehicles have been imported after passing customs inspection as per the rules.

A team was deployed under the leadership of the Department's Director Surendra Pandey on 17 Jestha from Rasuwa and under the leadership of Director Bhupal Raj Shakya on 11 Jestha from the Korala border checkpoint in Mustang. ‘A monitoring team led by the Director of the Customs Department, including authorized representatives from the Ministry of Finance, Nepal Police, and Armed Police Force Nepal, has submitted a report to the Customs Department after conducting a detailed study,’ the department said in a statement. ‘According to the report of the monitoring team deployed at the Mustang Customs Office, it was found that 649 electric vehicles had been cleared through 9 declaration forms from that office on 12 and 13 Jestha.’ The statement states that the investigation team concluded that all the mentioned electric vehicles had entered Nepal by 14 Jestha and had been cleared by the Customs Office as per the rules by the same date.’ The report submitted by the monitoring team to the department pointed out that the employees of the Rasuwa Customs Office did not exercise sufficient caution and fulfill their official responsibilities while clearing the customs of electric vehicles. "The monitoring team, while conducting on-site studies on declaration forms, office records, etc., found that some vehicles were inspected and passed only on the basis of documents before they physically arrived at the customs," the statement said. "Since it was seen that the legal process had not been completed, the Ministry of Finance and the Department of Customs have immediately suspended 13 employees, including the then office chief of the Rasuwa Customs Office, and initiated the process of departmental action."

The electric vehicle importers involved in the act, Laxmi E-Mobility Private Limited Kathmandu, Cymax Inc Private Limited Kathmandu, CG Motors Private Limited, Pooja International Nepal Private Limited, Pooja Construction Nepal Private Limited, and agents number 248, 833, and 878, as well as customs inspection representatives, have been sent to the Rasuwa Customs Office for action in accordance with the customs law, the statement said.

The Armed Police Force had seized 649 BYD vehicles brought from the Korala border crossing in Kushma in Parbat and Hemja in Kaski on 21 Jestha. The government had ordered them to be released on 31 Jestha, saying they had entered the country after passing the inspection process. The traders had taken them away after understanding. The vehicles seized at the Rasuwa Customs Office have not yet been released.