Allegation of the Image Cooperative victim of auctioning billions worth of assets
Image Savings and Credit Cooperative Society President Dev Kumar was incarcerated in the Nepali Cooperative Fraud case after his house was auctioned, and the victim savers protested. Dhorpatan, who is also the head of the municipality, is currently in prison on the orders of the Nepali district court.
The victims allege that the Nepalese cheated them after the Rashtriya Sahakari Bank auctioned their two houses while they were in prison. According to them, the Nepalese promised to return the savings by selling their household goods.
The bank has auctioned a large house built on lot number 457, 458 and 459 and a small house built on lot number 887 of Hallan Chowk located in Baglung municipality-2 named after Nepali. The bank has said that it has auctioned those houses through the process of one and a half years ago . Both houses were auctioned by Ram Bahadur and Goma Chhetri of Baglung Municipality 11.
Victim savers, who have been protesting for three years, have also alleged that the house was sold at a cheap price. Dil Bahadur Karki, the coordinator of the Cooperative Victims' Sangharsh Samiti, said, "The bank has sold the house worth about 500 million for 21 million. We tried to return the money of the savers, but the bank and Chhetri have conspired to sell the house and cheated the victims."
It is suspected that the victims' house of Lot No. 42 of Nepal's Pokhara Metropolitan City-8 was also auctioned. The victims have also claimed that they will calculate the amount of capital in the cooperative from the amount auctioned by the bank. They also submitted a letter to the chief district officer and said that they will move the house. Arjun Shrestha, the manager of
Bank, said that the sale was done within the specified period by issuing a public notice and not by collusion. "We conducted the auction process according to the rules of the Rashtra Bank. It doesn't matter who came and who didn't," he said. After being locked for 2 hours, the police opened the lock after controlling the crowd. On Monday also, some victims staged a dharna at the bank gate . On Sunday and Monday, the office was operated in the bank with heavy police presence.
The Cooperative Victims' Sangharsh Committee said that they went to the bank to register an application on Sunday asking for information on how the property was sold. They locked the office demanding immediate notification. Then the police provided security. Shrestha, the manager, said that the lock was forcibly locked when he said that he would give the information within a few days after the study.
Devendra Thapa, the head of the Land Port Office, Baglung, said that the person concerned does not want to sell the land mortgaged in the bank. "At the time of placing the mortgage, the necessary signatures have already been made, so we could not stop it as per the rules," Thapa said.
Nepali was on the run since 4th June 2080 . On the same 6th Baisakh, after putting up a notice that the office was closed due to lack of liquidity, the savers complained to the district administration, the police and other concerned agencies saying that their money was defrauded. After collecting the complaints of the victims and investigating the district police, the public prosecutor's office filed a case against Nepali on 25th June 2080.
Red corner notice was issued against Nepali in January 2080. In the first week of October 2081, he was arrested from New Delhi, India and brought to Nepal and brought to Nepali District Court, Baglung. District Public Prosecutor's Office Baglung filed a cooperative fraud case against 10 people including Nepali on 31 June 2080 based on the complaint of the victims including Tara Bahadur Kunwar. By the order of July 4, 2080, the owners and employees who were found to be Nepali fugitives were sent to prison for preliminary investigation.
Last January, when he was in prison, the Nepali had promised to return all the money even if he had sold his property and sold it. Out of 1,543 fraud complaints in the hope of getting money, more than 1,000 have returned the case. After submitting the document that they got the money together in Gharsar to the court, the bench of Baglung District Judge Rameshkant Adhikari ordered a partial reconciliation on 19th of January.
547 victims including Tara Bahadur Kunwar, Manju Sharma Chalise and Yam Bahadur Kunwar have submitted an application for reconciliation under Section 117 of the Civil Criminal Code 2074. Based on that order, the victim struggle committee sought loans and returned the money to those who had less than 1 lakh rupees saved .
Nepalis are accused of embezzling 1 billion 54 crore rupees only in Image Cooperative. In the initial investigation, the co-operative registrar's office in Pokhara, where an amount of 1.54 billion rupees was embezzled in Baglung, Galkot, Burtiwang and Pokhara, was also opened.
Apart from that, it was found that Nepalis have taken a loan of 35 million rupees from National Cooperative Bank, Garima Bikas Bank and Global IME Bank located in Baglung. Other officers of Image, Chitra Bahadur Bhandari, Narmati Budha, Shakti Kisan, Dor Bahadur Pariyar and Anita Budhamgar have been arrested in the case of co-operative fraud. They have been remanded in custody by the order of District Court Baglung dated 5th July, 2080 .
