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Ravi Lamichhane, Chabilal Joshi, Leela Pachai and Ram Bahadur Khanal have been charged with cooperative fraud, organized crime and money laundering in the supplementary indictment filed by the District Public Prosecutor's office Kaski in the district court on Sunday.
The property in the name of the Lamichhane couple, Joshi's wife and son and Pachai's mother and sister have also been asked to be confiscated. Similarly, Dipesh Pun, the son of former Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun, has been accused of cooperative fraud and organized crime.
During the police investigation, when analyzing the bank accounts of the Lamichhane couple, it was found that there were 'unusual transactions'. In a short period of time, it was found that Rs. 29 crore 7 lakh 84 thousand 469 were withdrawn from the bank account and Rs. 28 crore 91 lakh 36 thousand 967 were deposited. Therefore, the property of the Lamichhane couple has been demanded to be confiscated.
Former DIG Chabilal Joshi's wife Padma and son Rochak have also demanded confiscation of the property of the public prosecutor's office. A fine of Rs 74 crore 34 lakh 71 thousand 55 has been imposed against former DIG Joshi and a fine of 2 years to 15 years has been demanded.
Demands have been made to confiscate the land in Morang and the balance in the bank in the name of Chabilal, the land in Naxal and Shankhamool in Kathmandu in the name of Padma, and the land in Machhegaon in Kathmandu in the name of Rochak. The property of Leela Pachai's mother Radha and sister Geeta has also been demanded.
Deepesh, the son of former Vice President Pun, has filed a lawsuit demanding a fine of Rs. He is also accused again in Supreme Cooperative of Butwal. Devkumar Nepali, head of Baglung's Dhorpatan municipality, has also been accused of defrauding Pokhara's Suryadarshan Cooperative. Nepali is already in jail for the fraud of Image Cooperative.
Others named as defendants by the Public Prosecutor's Office are Netrapani Bastola, Devendrababu Rai, Vigyan Rai, Leela Pachai, Vishwavikram Rai, Vishal Tamang, Naveen Achami, Ravina Rimal, Ashraf Ali Siddiqui, Deepak Lama and Anantababu Rai. Similarly, Omprakash Gurung, Veer Bahadur Ranabhat, Deepa Neupane, Kalpana Kumari Shrestha, Gyan Bahadur Bamjan, Meena Gurung, Suryadhwaj Neupane, Aarti Gurung, Leela Bahadur Gurung, Peshal Kumar Rai, Krishna Bahadur Gurung, Shakuntala Gurung, Mishra Kumari Gurung, Ritu Tamrakar and Lakshmi Prasad Paudel have also been made defendants. . According to the Co-operative Act, they have been asked to be imprisoned for 8 to 10 years and fined equivalent to a fine.
GB Rai has earned Rs 18 crore through cooperatives, Leela Pachai and Bishwavikram Rai, who deal in crypto through companies like Binance and Vitabs, have been punished in accordance with sub-section (1) of Section 96 of the Rashtra Bank Act, 2058. . As Krishna Bahadur Gurung is a senior citizen above 75 years of age, it is recommended that he be given exemption from imprisonment.
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Lamichhane, Joshi, Pachai, Khanal and Gurung will begin their statements in the court on Monday, according to Khyam Narayan Lamichhane, Acting Srestedar of Kaski District Court. According to him, since Gurung is old and sick, the police suggested that the statement should be started from him. Lamichhane said, "Two of our employees will be involved in the statement. We are currently discussing which modality to give the statement." "Until then, the defendant has been kept in judicial custody to complete the legal process," he said.
Attorney Kamala Kafle of the District Public Prosecutor's Office said that they have prepared the debate to send the defendant to preliminary custody. She said that even though the case has been registered, other work is still pending. "Others should also be made defendants, correspondence will have to be done in various offices. The requested letters have not yet arrived, she said. In the indictment, it is mentioned that Rs 40.9 million was deposited in the Prime Commercial Bank account in the name of Ravi Lamichhane Foundation on June 10, 2022, and a letter will be sent to the relevant authorities to investigate the details of the expenditure.
SP Shyambabu Olia, Chief of District Police Office Kaski, said that the matter seen in the investigation has been accurately portrayed and placed in the report. 3 months is a short time to investigate such a wide issue, but we managed to prepare a report within the time limit with the help of a police team. Whatever the law and justice says, the verdict will come according to that," he said.
