The then director of Gorkha Media Network Pvt. Ltd. and the former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Nepal Police Chabilal Joshi has been arrested on the charge of defrauding the funds of the cooperative. 65.54 million was brought and spent from various cooperatives in an account opened under the signatures of Gorkha Media Chairman Gitendrababu (GB) Rai, Managing Director Ravi Lamichhane and Director Joshi.

Now Joshi has been arrested by the police from Kathmandu and taken to Kaski to investigate the savings fraud of Suryadarshan Cooperative in Pokhara. 

Joshi was arrested by a team from the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office from Shankhamool on Sunday afternoon. Soon after, he was taken to Kaski in a ship. He is under the custody of the Kaski police and is expected to be brought to the district court on Monday to be remanded for investigation. 

Kaski Police Chief SP Mohan Thapa said that Joshi has been detained for investigation related to money fraud of Pokhara's Suryadarshan Cooperative. "Last year, the first phase of the investigation into the embezzlement of Suryadarshan Cooperative's savings was completed and the case went to the court," he said. The report of the parliamentary committee has also arrived. At the same time, more people involved in the crime have been pulled for investigation.' 

The then Home Minister Lamichhane suppressed the supplementary complaint given by savers, and after he obstructed the investigation, a parliamentary special committee was formed to investigate. The committee recommended action against the directors of Gorkha Media GB Rai, Ravi Lamichhane, Kumar Ramtel and Chavi Lal Joshi. Rai is absconding while Ramtel is in Kaski jail pending trial. The committee concluded that charges of fraud, racketeering, organized crime and money laundering will be drawn against the four. 

The investigation report on the misappropriation of the cooperative's savings reached the police headquarters on Sunday through the Parliament Secretariat, the Council of Ministers, and the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Prime Minister's Office has also sent the report to the Ministry of Finance, Industry and Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation for implementation. 

The then owner of Gorkha Media, Joshi, was arrested on Sunday, the day the report was sent to the police headquarters. Joshi said to the police team that had arrived to arrest him, 'Am I the only one or will the above also be arrested? The eyewitness said that others who cut the check, I am the only one who will be arrested?' After that, the police said that "as revealed by the investigation, no one will escape".

According to an officer of the Kathmandu Valley Police Office, Joshi was arrested with an 'urgent arrest warrant' after it was seen that he could escape by getting a needle that could be arrested for investigation. The police officer involved in the co-operative fraud investigation told Kantipur, "In the Suryadarshan co-operative fraud case, the investigation to be carried out by the police has been completed, and the investigation has also progressed in other co-operatives." Some involved in the crime are absconding, some are in jail and some are out. Investigation has been started on some of the people who are outside. Joshi was arrested during the investigation.' 

Soon after Joshi's arrest, Gorkha Media's former managing director and RSVP president Lamichhane suddenly called the leaders/activists and supporters to the party office at Vanasthali. During that time, leaders/activists and supporters raised slogans against the government saying that they are going to trap Lamichhane in cooperatives. Addressing the workers, Lamichhane said, "It is understood that warrants have not been issued to arrest me, but this is not the responsibility of two-thirds of the government."

Suryadarshan of Pokhara along with Supreme of Butwal, Swarnalakshmi of Kathmandu, Sahara of Chitwan and Sano Paila Cooperative of Birgunj were transferred to Gorkha Media. Most of the money in the account was spent through checks signed by the then managing director Lamichhane, it is mentioned in the report of the parliamentary committee.

It was proved that Rai, Lamichhane and Joshi as account holders had opened a bank account by filling in the Customer Identification Card (KYC) form with name, date, company name, address, photograph, triplicate, fingerprint and signature, but Lamichhane has been claiming that no money has come into his account from the cooperative. are However, in Section 8 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, it is said that 'the person in whose name the account is opened, is responsible for the transaction'. 

Kaski Police's investigation and Pokhara Metropolitan City's investigation also confirmed that Suryadarshan Cooperative's savings were embezzled by taking it to Gorkha Media. In the same case, after completing the first phase of investigation, on October 18, 2080, the Kaski District Public Prosecutor's Office took a fraud case to the court with a demand of 1.11 billion rupees by making 19 people including Suryadarshan's founding president Rai as defendants. At that time, Lamichhane and Joshi were kept out of the purview of the investigation. Later, in January 2080, the aggrieved saver filed another police complaint with Lamichhane, former Vice President Pun's son Deepesh as accused.

Kiran Bajracharya, the then head of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the police, sent a team led by an inspector to Pokhara to help in the second phase of the investigation carried out by the Kaski police. Kaski Police and CIB team said that the involvement of people including Lamichhane in the Suryadarshan case was seen and they should be brought under the scope of investigation. However, as mentioned in the report, Lamichhane became the Home Minister along with the Deputy Prime Minister on February 23 before further investigation could be conducted. Lamichhane transferred CIB chief Bajracharya and took AIG Shyamalal Gyawali to CIB the next week after becoming home minister. After that, the investigation of the fraud case was blocked.