25 people who were issued arrest warrants in cooperative fraud were not caught.
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25 people who have been prosecuted for misappropriating the funds of Uma-Gauri Agricultural Cooperative located in Dhanpalthan Rural Municipality of Morang have not been arrested yet. Anjala Koirala, wife of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee Chairman Rishikesh Pokharel, along with the accused are absconding.
Based on the police investigation report, a case was filed against 26 people in the district court last Thursday for misappropriation of cooperative funds. Among the accused, Roshan Rajvanshi has already been arrested and is in custody pending trial. Last Tuesday, the Morang District Court issued warrants to arrest 26 other people. Koirala was in Biratnagar when the
was released. Koirala, a teacher of Biratnagar's Mahendra Ratri School, was present at the school last Friday. According to the school, he took a five-day leave saying that he was sick since Sunday, who also participated in the President's Running Shield competition.
A case has been registered against the chairman Shambhu Rauniyar, vice president Lakshman Shah Rauniyar, secretary Alam Ansari Mian and 220 million bigos on the charge of fraud. Since most of the accused were not arrested, the cooperative victims suspected police collusion. District Police Office Morang spokesperson DSP Ved Joshi said that the search for the accused has been intensified. "The accused is believed to be hiding in India," he said.
Chairman of the Audit Committee Pokharel had previously claimed that he and his family were not involved in the cooperative fraud. But after the involvement of Koirala in the police investigation, the case was started in the district court. The cooperative had taken a loan of more than 24 crores from Nabil Bank and RSDC Lagufitta.
But the savers have alleged that a large part of the loan was embezzled by the officers of the cooperative. It has been seen that the owner has embezzled half of the loan amount taken as a mortgage in the name of the debtor without giving it to the concerned person.
Koirala, who was a member of the board of directors from 2072 to 2078, also signed the proof that the cooperative took the loan. About 5,000 members of the cooperative have been affected due to the inability to repay the mortgage loan from Nabil Bank.
"Many savers in Karsia area have suffered," said Shyamprasad Rajwanshi, a member of the cooperative, "mine has also drowned."
Chairman Pokharel's resignation demand The Koshi parliamentary party of the Maoist center has demanded the resignation of Rishikesh Pokharel, the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament, saying that a fair investigation is needed in the Uma-Gauri cooperative society fraud.
Parliamentary Party leader Indra Angbo said that Anjala Koirala's involvement in cooperative fraud was seen in the police investigation and that Pokharel should resign from the post of chairman.
Angbo said that because Pokharel is the leader of the ruling party UML, the investigation related to the co-operative's fraud was affected. "Pokhrel's resignation is not an option for a fair investigation," he said in a press conference in Biratnagar on Thursday.
