Two businessmen who bought sugar and helped the buyers were also investigated by the Revenue
The Revenue Investigation Office Butwal has filed a case against two traders of Nawalparasi who made customs papers for rice and brought sugar from India and sold them, demanding a fine of Rs 70 million along with bigo.
The office has filed a case in the High Court Tulsipur Bench on charges of tax evasion against Sourav Yadav of Navjyoti Traders located in Ramgram Municipality-8 of West Nawalparasi and Pushpa Sharma, Director of Agam Stores and Order Suppliers, who purchased sugar from the said shop under the guise of rice. According to the chief investigation officer of
office, Vivek Ghimire, a case has been filed under section 20(6) of the Revenue Leakage Investigation and Control Act, 2052 (with amendments) against 4 people, including Saurabh Yadav, the proprietor of Navjyoti Traders, who sells goods and brings in tax evasion, Sharma, who buys the goods, and two others who help them.
'Seller Yadav has sold taxable goods worth more than 50 lakhs, but it has not been registered in value added tax,' he said,' he said, 'Apart from that, he has repeatedly made rice bills and traded in Indian sugar illegally brought in for customs evasion. 62 thousand 753 rupees and a corresponding 100% fine has been filed, amounting to about 7 crores. He said that taxpayer Yadav has committed an offense against section 3 of the Revenue Leakage Act 2052 and subsection (a), (b), (f) and (j) of section 4.
Pushpa Sharma, who bought the same goods, was fined 11 lakh 71 thousand 500 bego towards customs evasion and 100% fine and Hikmat Prasad Acharya, who directly assisted him, demanded half of the penalty and another defendant, Vinod Thapa, was confirmed to be involved in the crime of revenue leakage. It is mentioned in the statement issued by Krishna Kumari Shrestha, spokesperson and deputy director general of the department.
