The savers have filed a complaint that an amount of 1.11 billion 18 lakh 58 thousand was embezzled from Swarnalakshmi
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Ravi Lamichhane, Chairman of Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RASWPA), who is in the custody of Kaski Police for investigation in the co-operative fraud case, will be taken to Kathmandu on Tuesday. Since the statement related to Suryadarshan Cooperative in Pokhara has been completed, he is going to be taken to Kathmandu to take more statements related to Swarnalakshmi Cooperative fraud in Kalimati, Kathmandu.
According to police sources, he is scheduled to be taken to Kathmandu by ship on Tuesday morning. The Kathmandu District Court has already issued an arrest warrant against Lamichhane on November 2 for an investigation into the alleged misappropriation of savings of Swarnalakshmi Cooperative. After the statement, he will be brought back to Kaski. Lamichhane, who was also involved in the embezzlement of the savings of the Supreme Cooperative of Butwal, was earlier taken to the district attorney's office in Rupandehi for a statement. An arrest warrant has also been issued against Lamichhane and others in Chitwan.
An arrest warrant was also issued by the Kathmandu District Court against Joshi, former Director of Gorkha Media and former DIG, on the charge of misappropriating the savings of Swarnalakshmi Cooperative. Joshi has returned to Pokhara after taking a statement at the District Public Prosecutor's Office in Kathmandu. District Public Prosecutor's Office Rupandehi also took a statement from him earlier. The Kaski District Court on Sunday allowed Lamichhane to be detained for another 15 days for investigation. Kaski Lamichhane is being investigated for conspiracy to commit fraud, organized crime and money laundering. On Sunday, the bench of Judge Himlal Belwase extended the deadline for investigation of four people who were detained for the same crime, including Lamichhane.
Leila Pacchai and Ram Bahadur Khanal, who were arrested for the same crime along with Lamichhane and Joshi, have been extended in custody. Lamichhane was arrested on November 2 from the central office of RSVP and brought to Kaski. Earlier, 6 days, then 7 days, 10 days and 13 days were extended against him. An arrest warrant has also been issued against Lamichhane and others in Chitwan.
Kathmandu Police is investigating the Swarna Lakshmi Cooperative case for fraud, organized crime and money laundering. The Kathmandu Police is investigating the case of misappropriation of Swarnalakshmi Sahakari's funds while Lamichhane was the Managing Director and Joshi was the Vice President of Gorkha Media Network. An official of the Kathmandu Police said that after the involvement of Lamichhane and Joshi in the co-operative fraud, an arrest warrant was obtained from the court for investigation.
In this case last October, the Kathmandu District Court has already issued arrest warrants against 24 people including the president of Gorkha Media Gitendrababu (GB) Rai, out of which some of the accused including Rai are absconding. The accused along with Rai absconded after the investigation into the Suryadarshan Cooperative fraud case of Pokhara. It has been revealed by the parliamentary investigation committee and police investigation that Rai was involved in the fraud of Suryadarshan Cooperative and Supreme Cooperative of Butwal.
645 members filed a fraud complaint saying that 1 billion 118 million 58 thousand were embezzled from Swarnalakshmi. During the investigation, it was found that savings were embezzled with the connivance of the then directors, employees, Gorkha media officials, etc. of the cooperative. It has also been revealed that money was illegally transferred from Swarnalakshmi to a dozen companies including Gorkha Media.
The parliamentary investigation special committee also recommended action against the then chairman of the network Rai, the then vice president and former DIG Joshi, the then managing director Lamichhane and the director Kumar Ramtel for misappropriating the cooperative's savings to the Gorkha media network. After that, the police started an investigation into cooperative fraud. At the same time, Swarnalakshmi's savings fraud case was also investigated.
Swarnalakshmi Sahakari collected 2 billion 65 crore 95 lakh 59 thousand 58 rupees from 6 thousand 669 people with its main office in New Road, Maharajganj, Swayambhu and Jorpati with its head office in Kalimati-14. During the investigation after the complaint of the members, officials of Swarnalakshmi along with GB Rai were found involved in embezzlement. It has been seen that cooperative savings have been taken from Swarnalakshmi to 11 companies.
