A supplementary case has been filed in the Kaski District Court on Friday, demanding imprisonment for 15 years and 2.5 billion rupees against Gitendrababu (GB) Rai, the main planner of the cooperative fraud involving Pokhara's Suryadarshan.

The District Public Prosecutor's Office has filed a supplementary charge sheet against 19 defendants of the Suryadarshan Cooperative fraud, including Rai, with additional offenses and defects. 1 billion 51 million 40 million 19 thousand 194 bigos have been demanded only from the savings embezzlers of Suryadarshan Cooperative. 

The cooperative victim filed a complaint on August 22, 2080 against Suryadarshan Cooperative's patron and former president GB Rai, current president Than Bahadur Budha, vice president Kailash Kumar Darlami, secretary Dheeraj Kumar Das, treasurer Kumar Ramtel, member Hemant Adhikari and Pramod Bhattarai. After the Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality prepared the financial analysis report of the cooperative, the police started investigating 12 more people.  The district attorney made 19 people including Bhupendra Rai, Anuj Nakarmi, Shiv Bahadur Gurung, Bhaveshwar Aryal, Aisma Gurung, Kavita Tamang, Sagar KC, Lalita Tamang, Dinesh Rokka, Srishti Manandhar, Buddhi Gurung and Suraj Shrestha as defendants. On October 18, 2080, the office registered a case for the crime of cooperative fraud. At that time, 1 billion 119 million 43 thousand bigos were demanded. 

On Friday, a case was filed in organized crime and money laundering by increasing the number of cooperative frauds. Shrestedar Khyamnarayan Lamichhane on behalf of Kaski District Court informed that 16 of the 19 accused have been charged with co-operative fraud and false claims.

"In the case of GB Rai, a supplementary indictment has been received with the addition of the section of cooperative, the addition of bigo, the section of organized crime and the addition of money laundering and the section according to the Rashtra Bank Act," he said. 

Attorney Kamala Kafle of the District Public Prosecutor's Office said that a case has been registered to recover from the embezzlers and bring them to the savers. "We have completed the case by making additional claims to prove the old accusation," she said, "how much embezzlement has been committed, how much is to be filled, is in the indictment." She said that asset laundering is also connected. 

In the supplementary charge, GB Rai has the highest number of errors and demands for punishment. For him, about one billion 867.3 million bigos have been fixed in asset cleansing.

Out of that, 466.8 million collective and individual failures are related to co-operative fraud and 184.48 million 8 thousand to collective responsibility under the Rashtra Bank Act. 173.2 million from Collective Bigo, 25.5 million from Gorkha Media Network, 38.7 million from Nature Herbs, 44.45 million from Nature Nest, 26.6 million from GB Group, 14.7 million from Springwood, 11.11 million from Gorkha Group Multi And 30 lakh bigo of S&B Company is maintained.

Rai has been asked to be imprisoned for 6 to 8 years for cooperative fraud, an additional 50 percent punishment for organized crime, 3 years imprisonment according to the Rashtra Bank Act 2058 and 2 to 15 years imprisonment for money laundering and a double fine. 

Kailash Kumar Darlami, Kumar Ramtel, Pramod Bhattarai, Anuj Nakarmi, Shiv Bahadur Gurung and Bhaveshwar Aryal are remanded in custody in Kaski Jail out of the 19 additional charges. 13 people including GB Rai are absconding. Ravi Lamichhane, former managing director of RSWP and former managing director of Gorkha Media Network Pvt. Ltd., and other new ones including former vice president Chabilal Joshi are yet to be brought to court.  The victim of

cooperative filed a supplementary complaint against Ravi Lamichhane, Gyan Bahadur Bamjan, Netrapani Bastola, Dipesh Pun Magar and 14 companies on 22 January 2080. Pokhara Metropolitan Municipality prepared another financial analysis and submitted the report to the police on May 26.

The police started an investigation last June by issuing arrest warrants against 25 more people who were in the former executive committee in the misappropriation of the cooperative. At the same time, an arrest warrant was also issued against Dev Kumar Nepali, the head of Baglung's Dhorpatan municipality. He is in custody in Baglung jail pending charges of misappropriating the savings of Image Cooperative in Baglung and Pokhara. He is also the former vice president of Suryadarshan. 

Out of the 25 people whose arrest warrants were issued in June, Omprakash Gurung is in Ruppandehi Jail on the charge of Supreme Cooperative fraud in Butwal. Leela Bahadur Gurung, who is associated with Surya Darshan, is currently in Nakhkhu Jail.

A case is also going on against him on charges of misappropriating the savings of Kalyan Upkar Sahakari of Lalitpur. In this way, 9 of the police said that they should be made defendants, they are already in the jails of different districts for preliminary investigation. 

A team including the Kaski Police and the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) investigated the misappropriation of Suryadarshan Cooperative's savings. When Lamichhane was the Home Minister, he asked Inspector General of Police Vasant Kunwar to say that there was no complaint against him in the parliamentary committee.

He also wrote a letter from the Attorney General's office and claimed that there was no complaint against him. But after the evidence that Lamichhane was involved in co-operative fraud became public, the Congress blocked the parliament by demanding a parliamentary inquiry committee. 

After a long tug-of-war, a special parliamentary inquiry committee led by UML MP Surya Thapa was formed. The committee prepared a report and submitted it to the House of Representatives on August 31. Concluding that the co-operative funds were misappropriated by taking them to Gorkha Media against the law, the committee recommended action against Gorkha Media Chairman GB, Member Kumar Ramtel, then Managing Director Lamichhane and former Vice President Director Chabiraj Joshi.

After the government decided to accept and implement the report, Joshi was arrested on October 6 and Lamichhane was arrested on October 2. Five people, including Leela Pachai, Ram Bahadur Khanal and Krishna Bahadur Gurung, who are connected to the Suryadarshan fraud, are in the custody of the Kaski police.

The police have submitted an investigation report to the District Public Prosecutor's Office with the opinion that they should be sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes related to cooperative  fraud, organized crime and money laundering. 

Police are of the opinion that the previous and additional 51 people should be made defendants. Police have mentioned in the report that one and a half billion rupees should be recovered from them. There is a legal provision in which money laundering offenses can be detained and investigated for a maximum period of 90 days. The deadline expired on Friday night.