On the day of their arrest, Lama and Paudel's mobile phones were very busy, 1 thousand 14 phone calls were made from their mobile phones that day
It has been 15 days since the charge sheet was filed against two people for smuggling foreign currency worth around 25 million rupees from Tokha in Kathmandu. On 2 Baisakh, the Revenue Investigation Department filed a charge sheet against Kusang Lama and Narayan Paudel, also known as Fuchche of Sindhupalchok Bhotekoshi Rural Municipality, who were also the drivers of the truck. However, the police have not been able to find Paudel, who is absconding.
According to Badri Kumar Karki, the investigation officer and director of the Revenue Investigation Department, an offense under the Foreign Exchange (Regulation) Act, 2019 has been filed in the charge sheet filed under Section 32 of the Civil Criminal Procedure Code 2074 in the Kathmandu District Court.
Giving a statement about the money found on 4th of Chaitra, Lama said that it should have been kept from the warehouse of Sindhu Materials Pvt. Tokha-3, Greenland. The container (truck) No. 7 Kha 1652 driven by him was built at Baba Balkhand Body Builders garage in Chandragiri 2 for 14/15 days, then serviced in Thimi and parked at Gokarnshwar-2 Nayapati for 1 day and then parked at Shankar Hospital Nir parking lot in Jorpati for 2 days . After worshiping, the car was taken out on 4th of Chaitra and taken to the warehouse of Sindhu Materials Pvt. Ltd. at around 6 pm. According to
Lama, at the same time Narayan Paudel and Hari Bahadur Bhandari, Paudel's driver and accountant named Rajkumar, were talking to him when he saw a tall man with dark complexion get out of his car and asked him what he did. Lama said, "After that, Narayan Paudel went with that black boy asking me to stay." The black boy must have placed the foreign currency US dollars and Euros inside my container where the sound box above the seat is kept.'
then at 8 pm at night He had walked towards Rasuwa. At that time Narayan Poudel was not there but accountant Bhandari was. Sindhu Materials Pvt Ltd is owned by Hari Bahadur Bhandari, Tulsi Bhandari, Jeevan Kumar Bhandari from Sindhupalchok along with Narayan Paudal. Jeevan Kumar Bhandari is also the ward president of Bahrbise Municipality-3.
Lama said in a statement that he was going to buy ready-made clothes imported from China. It is his statement that he went to get the goods from Pathak mess. A few days before he was arrested, the brother's friends said that the large amount of money that came into the bank account was deposited in the account for the purpose of buying his house.
The police also raided the house of Narayan Paudel in Tokha-10, Mahadeotar Height. Sujata Hemaram and her husband Milan Vick, who do cleaning work in her house, also said in a statement that they sometimes saw Chinese nationals coming to their house. His wife and son, who were living in the house with Poudel, have also been missing since that day.
1 thousand 14 phone calls that day
Lama called Narayan Poudel and told him that he was going to go, even though he did not meet. In response, Paudel said to go with the car. But in the meantime, Lama has contacted Poudel and Dai Gamjo Sherpa hundreds of times by phone.
About the reason for calling Narayan Paudel, Lama said that there were repeated phone calls when there was a conversation about the breakdown of the vehicle due to the breakdown of the vehicle on the road. The conversation with Dai Gyamzo Sherpa states that when the mother was sick and came to Kathmandu for treatment, they contacted her many times to talk to her. In the
call detail report, it appears that the mobile phone used by Lama Narayan Poudel has been contacted 28 times . Then Neupane switched off the mobile phone from Tokha Balkumari temple on the same night . Then Hari Bahadur Bhandari, the driver of Lama's Narayan Poudel, was contacted by phone 169 times. According to the call detail report presented in the court, Lama made 139 phone calls with brother-in-law Gyamjo Sherpa, 16 times with sister-in-law Diwang Sherpa and 74 times with wife Damu Sherpa.
Similarly, Lama has contacted Ram Silwal 6 times and Devi Prasad Dhungel 9 times. On the other hand, Narayan Paudel has contacted his driver Hari Bahadur Bhandari by phone 267 times. Sagun called KC 73 times, son Dipesh Paudel's mobile 213 times, brother Rajkumar Paudel's mobile 20 times.
