Victims of Swarnalakshmi Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society in Kathmandu, operated by GB Rai Group, filed a complaint with the police demanding the return of their savings. On Sunday, 528 people filed a complaint in Kalimati police circle demanding the return of about 1 billion savings.

According to Suman Khanal, President of Swarnalakshmi Multi-Purpose Co-operative Victims' Sangharsh Samiti, more victims have come in contact after filing complaints. Complaints of 50/60 more people have been received. We will collect it and hand it over to the police," he said. Although the police have accepted the complaint, it has not been registered. "Many complaints have been filed, we have not registered all the complaints as they are being studied," a police source said, "It will be registered after studying whether the process has been completed or not." 

The co-operative victim said that no complaint has been registered as the necessary documents are yet to be received from the Wagmati State Co-operative Office. "The police said that since Swarnalakshmi is under the cooperative province, it needs the recommendation of the province to register the complaint," Khanal said, "The province has already sent the necessary documents with the recommendation. After that document comes, the police said that they will register a complaint.' 

The victims claim that only 13,000 savers have been embezzled from Swarnalakshmi Sahakari, which is operated by the group of Rai, who is the chairman of Galaxy Television. It seems that the total number of savers in Swarnalakshmi is about 13,000. "According to the manager of the cooperative, about 2 billion 74 crores of savings are yet to be returned." He informed that he filed a complaint and is preparing to go through further legal procedures after the savings are not returned.

Similarly, the victims of Surya Darshan in Pokhara, Sahara in Chitwan and Supreme Savings and Loan Cooperative in Butwal issued a joint statement on Friday and demanded that the companies and the owners of those companies who illegally took loans from the cooperative be brought under the scope of action. Kiran Shrestha, Coordinator of Suryadarshan Sufferers Struggle Committee, Shalikram Duwadi, Coordinator of Sahara Sufferers Struggle Committee, and Vijay Kumar Nepal, Coordinator of Supreme Cooperative Sufferers Struggle Committee, issued a joint statement and demanded the government to return the investments made by the cooperative in those companies. The

statement said, 'The cooperatives operated by GB Rai Group, our agricultural cooperatives, Suryadarshan of Pokhara, Swarnalakshmi of Kathmandu, Sahara of Chitwan, Supreme of Butwal, Sanopaila of Birganj and Samana Cooperative of Nepalgunj are unprofitable and cannot be invested in violation of the laws of the Government of Nepal and the Cooperative Act. This government is silent even when billions of rupees have been embezzled from thousands of savers by investing in various companies and organizations. Crores of rupees have flowed into companies such as Rai Samhu's Gorkha Media Network Pvt Ltd, Nature Herb, Nature Nest, Gorkha Group of Investments, Springwood Real Estate and Housing. . 

In the investigation report of the Supreme Cooperative of Butwal, it is mentioned that crores of rupees were embezzled by disbursing loans to various companies with the involvement of GB Rai Group. After problems were found in the Sahara Cooperative of Chitwan, the report made during the investigation from last October 9 shows that crores of rupees have been misused in 9/10 companies with the connivance of Rai and others. Last March 4, the victim submitted a complaint against 6 of these companies at the District Police Office, Chitwan. At that time, it was agreed to proceed with the process after providing the three-volume details of the company. The process of registering a case against the company and its directors has not yet progressed.

In the investigation that was conducted after a complaint was filed with the police in 080 August regarding Pokhara's Suryadarshan Cooperative, it was found that crores of rupees had been invested in the name of the company with the involvement of the Rai group. Kiran Shrestha, Coordinator of the Sangharsh Committee, said that the complaint filed by the Suryadarshan Cooperative victim against 14 different companies on 22nd of March at the District Police Office Kaski has been kept at the police office until now.

 'We understand the secret behind not proceeding with anything regarding all these activities, the directors of those companies and their trade, business and investment, the wealth and income of those companies and the current situation of the company. No,' he said, 'The reason behind this government's failure to investigate and freeze the income and assets of all those companies should be made clear to the common cooperative victims.' It is mentioned in the statement that the government has not taken concrete steps to solve the problem by returning the money of the victim savers. 

Section 30 of the Cooperative Act, 2074 states that to become a member of a cooperative, one must reside within the working area, be a cooperative school, a community school, or a service organization. In other words, it has been arranged that profitable private companies cannot be members of cooperatives. The law does not allow any company or private company to be a member.

Section 50 of the Cooperative Act stipulates that savings and loan transactions should be focused on members. It is stated in sub-section (1) that a co-operative society can only accept the savings of its members, mobilize the same and grant loans only to the members. That is, people other than members cannot take loans. Cooperatives cannot provide loans to any company or private limited company. It is illegal for a person to take a loan on behalf of a company or private company contrary to the said provision. 

Section 122 (T) of the Cooperatives Act states that anyone who does or does not do any work, solicits or does any work, takes or gives any kind of money, or does or does any act with malice that causes illegal benefit or loss, with the intention of causing harm to the cooperative organization, is deemed to be an offence. is mentioned. Section 124 (1) (d) of the Cooperatives Act provides for four to six years imprisonment in case of violation of more than one million rupees up to 10 million rupees, and six to eight years imprisonment for offenses exceeding 10 million rupees.