Involvement of Easypay and Paywell in Illegal Gold Smuggling: More than 1 billion paid illegally

According to CIB, Payvel's wallet had an e-money credit worth Rs. Out of which the highest amount is Rs 61 billion 50 crore through voucher deposit.

Similarly, from June 2, 2079 to June 21, 2081, e-money worth Rs 36 billion 94 crore 35 lakh 75 thousand 247 rupees was loaded into the wallet, and the highest amount of vouchers worth Rs 19 billion 46 crore 25 lakh 73 thousand 758 rupees was uploaded and paid. According to the CIB. According to the CIB, it has been revealed through the investigation that the undisclosed amount received from illegal gold transactions has been saved, transferred, transferred, paid and used in paywell and easy pay accounts. CIB also claims to have received vouchers and details worth more than 1 billion.

It has been seen that cash transactions were done through agents without the approval of Nepal Rastra Bank. In the press conference, CIB has also informed that wrong data has been submitted in the statement which should be submitted daily and monthly to the payment system department of Rashtra Bank while paying the amount. Since its inception, there has been a transaction of 1 trillion 23 billion through this gateway.

It has also been revealed that the money sent as remittances from countries like Australia, UAE, Korea and other countries have been transferred from abroad and the money received from illegal gold transactions has been saved in various bank accounts of the remittance recipients in Nepal. Eight people including the board of directors, employees and agents involved in the case have been arrested. Among those arrested are Paywell's Chairman Bhimprasat Timilsina, Assistant Chief Executive Officer Prajwal Acharya and Chief Accountant Suraj Shamsher Jabra. Similarly, the members of the board of directors are Phunsuk Dagpa Athupchang Khampa and Sushil Zakibanja and the chief executive officer Kashyap Manandhar. Agents Lal Bahadur Kunwar and Arun Kumar Yadav have also been arrested.

Nepal Rastra Bank has frozen the bank accounts of Paywell Nepal Pvt Ltd and Sajilo Payment Services Pvt. On May 18, the National Bank issued a notice and froze all the bank accounts of those companies.