”The flow of letters, quality of stroke, skill, speed, distance, size and proportion etc. in the signature are consistent with each other. Reviewing all the bases, it comes to the conclusion that the signature belongs to the same person.”
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The signature of the check cut by the then managing director of Gorkha Media, Ravi Lamichhane, who claimed that he had no knowledge about the cooperative's savings going to Gorkha Media, has also been proven by forensic tests.
As managing director of the company, Lamichhane cut 820 checks in 15 months, of which four dozen checks were cut for repayment of cooperative loans.
It has been proven that the signature used to take out the loan through the artificial account opened in Pokhara's Suryadarshan Cooperative under the title of 'Puleso Karja' is fake as claimed by the Pokhara metropolis and the police. The study of the metropolis and the investigation of the police have said that Lamichhane should be held accountable for opening an artificial account by filling in fake details in a planned manner to embezzle the savings of the cooperative.
The police investigating the Suryadarshan Cooperative fraud sent the Central Forensic Science Laboratory of Nepal Police to conduct a forensic examination of 12 checks out of 820 checks cut by Lamichhane, including those paid to the cooperative. According to the report submitted by the Public Prosecutor's Office to the District Court Kaski, Lamichhane's signature has been confirmed on all the checked checks.
Lamichhane's 21 official signatures on various documents were considered as standard and the checks cut by him were tested. It is mentioned in the report that the shape, size, stroke, shape and dots of the letters in the signature are the same.
"In both types of signatures, the flow of letters, quality of stroke, skill, speed, distance, size and proportion etc. are similar to each other," the report said, "There is no difference in signatures." The signatures are unobstructed and have only natural differences. There is substantial and sufficient ground to say that these signatures were not made by two different persons, the signatures do not appear to have been coincidentally. Therefore, a review of all those bases leads to the conclusion that these signatures are signed by the same person.
However, the report mentions that Lamichhane's signature, which was used to withdraw funds through Suryadarshan Sahakari's artificial account, cannot be compared technically. "These two signatures are different and technically not comparable," the report said.
In the internal letter regarding the loan filled on June 31, 2078, the name of Ravi Lamichhane, the amount of one crore, the interest rate of 14.75 percent and the term of one year are mentioned. But as other details are incomplete and fake, the police claim that the paper was created with a plan to cheat.
"Lamichhane's address is Pokhara-8 Srijan Chowk, so it was not possible to get a signature, but the money was taken out based on that," said the investigating police. Those checks have been confirmed by forensic tests. This form has also been sent for forensic examination to confirm that it was done in an organized manner.' The signature was tested by marking 'Q1' to 'Q13'.
The signatures for withdrawing loans from Suryadarshan Cooperative were tested as 'Q1' and the signatures of checks cut by Lamichhane were marked from 'Q2' to 'Q13'.
From 28 August 2077 to 2 February 2080, a total of 1,237 checks were deducted from the Global IME Bank account number 00401010000577 of Gorkha Media Network Pvt. Ltd. 59 crore 49 lakh 44 thousand 955 rupees were transacted from these checks. Out of this, 820 checks were cut by the then Managing Director Lamichhane alone, from which a transaction of Rs. Lamichhane cut four dozen checks to pay off the loan principal of the cooperatives.
