Energy Minister Basnet and Labor Minister Aryal also embezzled savings in affiliated cooperatives

The main opposition Congress has been demanding in the parliament every day that there should be a parliamentary inquiry against Ravi Lamichhane, the chairman of the RSVP and the home minister, in the misappropriation of the co-operative's funds. Lamichhane is the managing director and GB Rai is the president of the Gorkha media network, documents have been released confirming that money was brought from Swarnalakshmi in Kathmandu, Suryadarshan in Pokhara, Sahra in Chitwan, Sanopaila in Birganj, Supreme in Butwal and Samana Sahakari in Nepalgunj.

'Our New Agricultural Cooperative', which came into the limelight recently, was established under the chairmanship of Maoist Deputy General Secretary and Energy Minister Shakti Bahadur Basnet. The Division Cooperative Office was registered in Kathmandu on May 13, 2007. The area of ​​operation of the cooperative was also registered to be all over the country. After the cooperative was established to work in a certain community and area, the cooperative led by Maoist leader Basnet got permission to work all over the country. In this organization, Basnet also placed party workers and family members in various roles . After this cooperative is in crisis, he has also been questioned. But Kantipur did not want to get in touch even though he called and texted repeatedly for a response.

What is strange is that Gitendrababu (GB) Rai also joins 'our new agricultural cooperative'. Surya Bahadur Gurung and GB Rai became the president after Basnet, who had been in the cooperative for a long time, left. Savers say that after Aryal and Burlakoti entered politics, the institution was handed over to GB Rai in a planned manner. But before that, when Gurung was the president, Aryal was the vice president and Burlakoti was the director of the organization, a complaint was filed saying that 4.5 crores were embezzled and not paid.

On January 11, when this cooperative was declared problematic, the government made two decisions. One is to manage the assets and liabilities of the organization and the other is to conduct investigations by the Central Investigation Bureau of Police. A notice of 35 days to submit claims has been published, during this period more than 4.5 million claims have been filed. During the study, President Surya Bahadur Gurung, Vice-President Dolprasad Aryal of RSVP and Board Member Kavindra Burlakoti are in charge," said Keshav Prasad Paudel, member secretary of the troubled cooperative management committee office, "Gitendra Babu Rai is the current chairman of the working committee."

Based on the letter from the cooperative department, the CIB has also started an investigation. "The savers of our new agricultural cooperative have complained that they have not received their money back. Even after the CIB started the investigation, complaints continue to come in there. "The complaint is coming, our investigation is also going on," said CIB DSP Jeevan Niraula.

Other members of the GB Rai group, which cheats cooperatives across the country, have also been found to be connected to this cooperative. Police have confirmed that the officers of the Supreme Cooperative Society in Butwal are the directors of 'Our New Agricultural Cooperative Society'. Niraula said that Omprakash Gurung and Durga Chapagarin were the operators of both sides, they have been arrested by the police in Butwal cooperative fraud and the investigation is being carried out in Kathmandu. "We are investigating three people, one arrested in Kathmandu and two arrested from Butwal," he said. Accepted. He claimed that there was no problem during his tenure, although he gradually became a member of the organization and became the vice president. After covid, we went to our new agricultural cooperative organization to work in the agricultural sector all over the country and lead a national level cooperative. I became a member and also became the vice president. However, as the work did not work according to my concept, I resigned from the position of vice-president within 1 month by agreement," Minister Aryal said. "When I resigned, there was no problem in the cooperative. I also have an investment of 23 lakh rupees. But since I am busy myself, I left it to give when I have money. GB Rai's group is the chairman of the new board of directors.'

Stating that the RSVP has submitted a report to the Prime Minister to solve the problems seen in the cooperatives, he said, 'Now we have taken it upon ourselves to solve the problems seen in the cooperatives, we have submitted the report to the Prime Minister,' he said, 'If there are any problems from us, we will correct them but we will not cheat.' story - break Minister Aryal's claim that he does not have any transactions in the cooperative now has no basis to confirm. GB Rai and Aryal also signed the agreement reached in Rohbar of the Cooperative Department on June 27 to return the amount after the savers complained. In which GB Rai had given a written commitment to return the depositor's money by selling the immovable property. Aryal has also signed the fourth number of the list of main shareholders in Manjurina. This confirms that he was the main shareholder of this organization until last June. At that time, it seems that Minister Aryal had shares worth Rs 10 lakh in the organization.

'The chairman of the board of directors and the board of directors of this organization have given an amount equal to 10 million rupees to Springwood Real Estate and Housing Pvt. 624,625,628 area from 6180.18 square meters of land, we all agree with the agreement made by Chairman Gitendrababu Rai on June 3, 080 in the presence of the Registrar and Savers of the Department,' said the paper submitted to the Cooperative Department.

But this agreement has been neglected. "Though the department made a written commitment to solve the problem after discussing it with the members of the board of directors and the saver members of the organization, it was not implemented," the cooperative department wrote in a letter to the CIB on 080 Oct 25. The board of directors and management staff of the organization seem to have committed an offense against the Cooperative Act. We have sent for further investigation for punishment.'