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Devkumar Nepali, who is accused of co-operative fraud, was produced by the police in the district court of Baglung on Monday. Rishiram Rizal, Branch Officer of the District Court, said that Nepali's statements were taken throughout the day on Monday.
The founder president of Image Savings and Loan Cooperative and the head of Dhorpatan Municipality, who was arrested in Delhi last Friday, was taken to Baglung by a police vehicle on Sunday night after being brought by plane from Kathmandu to Pokhara. There will be a debate on the detention of Nepalis only on Tuesday.
Even though he was brought to the court at 11 am on Monday, Nepali's statement was made continuously from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. After the discussion about bringing the Nepalese to the court, savers, officials of the Image Cooperative Victims' Sangharsh Samiti and others reached the court premises. The police also tightened security in the court.
1 thousand 543 people filed complaints against Nepali. The District Public Prosecutor's Office, Baglung filed a cooperative fraud case against 10 people, including Nepali, on 31 June 2080 based on the complaint of Tara Bahadur Kunwar. The order of 4th of July had sent 7 directors to pre-trial detention except Nepali.
The directors of the cooperative, Chitra Bahadur Bhandari, Narmati Budha, Shakti Kisan, Dor Bahadur Periyar and Anita Budhamgar have been arrested in this case.
District Court Baglung has sent them to prison for pre-trial detention by order dated 4th July 2080. Bhandari, Budha and Kisan went to jail in July, while Pariyar and Budhamgar were arrested in the first week of December 2081 based on the same order and are in jail pending trial.
2080 Nepali was missing since May 4 after the cooperative was closed due to lack of liquidity. 1 thousand 543 savers filed a complaint against him alleging fraud. Based on the same complaint, the public prosecutor's office filed a case on charges of fraud of 1.54 billion rupees.
Nepali is also the head of Dhorpatan municipality. He won two elections on behalf of UML and became its leader. In the complaint, due to the offenses mentioned in 'd', 'e', 'f', 'c', 'j' and 't' of section 122 of the Cooperative Act 2074, to get compensation equal to the amount embezzled according to subsection 1 of section 124 of the said act. It has also been demanded that he be sentenced to prison in the case of fraud.
In addition, according to the study of the office of the cooperative registrar, in the case filed by the public prosecutor's office, 7 thousand 94 from Baglung, 2 thousand 661 from Pokhara and 1 thousand 774 from Galkot, 11 thousand 529 were accused of tempting non-share members in the cooperative. There is also an allegation of taking money from share members.
In violation of Section 32(2) of the Cooperative Act 2074, 87 lakh 50 thousand rupees were embezzled as a liability, 65 crores were kept in a fake savings account as a fake loan, embezzlement was done by showing the balance sheet amount only on paper, etc. has been done
