For the first time, the Authority has filed a money laundering case against the employee

The authority filed a case in the special court on Thursday, making Saroj Bhattarai, the then Chief Planning Engineer of Lumbini Development Fund, the main accused and his mother, Janak Nandani Bhattarai, as the defendant.

According to Joint Secretary Narahari Ghimire, the then head of planning of the fund, Bhattarai, who was the then head of planning of the fund, took a bribe of Rs. Akhtiyar's spokesperson Ghimire said that a case was filed against both of them on that basis.

Bhattarai had already been found guilty by a special court for a case related to Rukum for accepting a bribe of 80 lakh rupees. During further investigation, it was found that Bhattarai bought the land in his mother's name by taking another 15 million rupees as a bribe when the fund was contracted.

80 million of the previous case filed by the authority and 15 million of bribe money revealed by further investigation, the authority has said that a case of asset laundering has been filed for the first time by maintaining a total of 185 million rupees in the crime of purchasing land. A demand has also been made to confiscate the land of 2 ropani 11 anna 2 paisa bought after purifying the bribe money.

Last year, after the federal parliament amended some laws on money laundering prevention and business promotion, it is mentioned in the charge sheet that the defendant Bhattarai and his mother were investigated and charged with money laundering related crimes.

On 25th March 2080, the Authority filed a case against Bhattarai and his mother Jankanandani on the charge of taking bribe in the public construction contract of the fund, and 2 months later on 31st May 2080, Saroj was found guilty and sentenced to a fine of 80 rupees and 6 years imprisonment.

Saroj's mother Janak Nandani was acquitted by the authority. 80 lakh After finding evidence of another 1.5 million bribe related to the bribe, it said that a case was filed in asset laundering on Thursday for the bribe and money laundering related to both the cases. Bhattarai, the then planning head of

fund, in the name of mother Janak Nandani, district Bhaktapur former Gundu Gabis ward no. 3 bought the land by spending the bribe. It was revealed that Saroj bought the land in the name of his mother by paying the money directly to the land seller using an intermediary from the companies that got the construction contract of the fund.

construction contract Babul Construction Services offered bids in single and JV and signed the contract after 2075/076 billion 372 million 25 lakh 97 thousand 6 hundred 3 rupees 54 paise and 99 million 25 lakh 2 thousand 44 paise than 2075/76 financial year. It was revealed that Saroj Bhattarai, as coordinator, member and planning head of the evaluation committee, took a bribe for taking the contract to Babul Construction Services as a single and joint venture in the contract worth Rs 42 paise.

Its Saroj asked to deposit the amount from the accounts of Arghakhanchi-Babul JV, Lumbini-Arghakhanchi Babul JV and Arghakhanchi Babul JV to the land seller's account . It was discovered from the investigation that land was bought in Gundu with the same amount.

It was revealed that the owner of Babul Construction Services was asked to deposit money into the account of a person working in Ashi Inc. in order to facilitate and settle the contract.

In this way, 80 lakhs and 15 million rupees were taken in 2 batches on different dates respectively was found . Both of these offenses have been investigated separately for bribery and money laundering and the case has gone to court.

'While investigating the related crime of bribery and bribery, it can be seen from the evidence and documents collected during the investigation that, apart from the said crime, criminal acts defined and prohibited in the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2064 were also committed in the present case,' It is said in the indictment, 'Looking at the crime related to asset laundering, the defendant Saroj Bhattarai received a total amount of Rs. Since it is the stage of acquisition, during the purification of the assets obtained from the associated crimes, the sources of the assets obtained from the crimes are hidden, with the intention of creating more complexity in the transactions for the purpose of concealment, the assets are layered by making the assets to be traded in multiple layers, the sources of the assets from multiple transactions and after creating complexity in the transactions, the assets obtained from the crimes and Believing that the relationship with illegal sources has ended, the defendant Saroj Bhattarai, using the property obtained from the crime for personal gain, bought and bribed 2 ropani 11 annas 2 paisa land in the name of his mother Janak Nandani Bhattarai in former Gundu Gavis Ward No. 3 of Bhaktapur (now in Suryavinayak Municipality-7 It is confirmed that the property acquired through bribery and corruption has been converted into land and the property has been used for personal gain to clean up the property,'' the indictment of the authority says.

According to the indictment filed with the authority It was found that the land seller had paid 1 crore 61 lakh 32 thousand 194 rupees from the account of Babul Construction Services through the middleman's account on 27th Baisakh 2079. It has also been found that the remaining amount was spent on taxes and other expenses during the purchase of land .

Saroj's mother, Janakandani, is involved in the crime of changing the source and rights of acquisition, ownership and form of property with the intention of concealing the source of illegal wealth, and the authority has demanded that she be punished as the main culprit.