A supplementary case of co-operative fraud and organized crime has been registered against 29 people, including Ravi Lamichhane, the then managing director of Gorkha Media Network and RASWP chairman, for misappropriating the funds of the Small Step Savings and Credit Cooperative Society of Birganj.

The district public prosecutor's office registered a charge sheet against them in the district court on Friday, judging that they had embezzled a total of Rs.

In the indictment, former Home Minister Lamichhane, who is currently in prison, has a huge demand of 115.6 million 94 thousand rupees. The charge sheet has been registered based on the Cooperative Act 2074 and the Prevention of Organized Crime Act 2070. According to Section 124 of the Cooperative Act 2074, Lamichhane has been demanded a prison sentence of 6 to 8 years as he has lost more than 10 million to 1 billion.

Moreover, additional punishment has been demanded against him according to the Prevention of Organized Crime Act. According to section (9) (b) of the said Act, he can be punished with an additional 50% additional punishment and according to section (9) (c) of the said act, imprisonment for up to five years and an additional fine of up to fifty thousand.

About a month ago, Parsa police submitted a report to the public prosecutor's office after investigating the misappropriation of funds of Sano Paila Savings and Credit Cooperative Society in Birganj. The public prosecutor's office has registered a charge sheet against them in the case of misappropriation of cooperative savings.

In the same case, the former DIG of Nepal Police and the then Vice President of Gorkha Media Network Chabilal Joshi has been demanded 72.2 million Bigo, punishment and fine according to Bigo and additional punishment according to the Organized Crime Control Act. From the police investigation, it has been found that 100.6 million 94 thousand rupees were transferred from Small Payla Cooperative to Gorkha Media Pvt. Ltd. and 9.5 million 98 rupees to Nature Herbs Industries Pvt. Ltd. 

It is mentioned in the indictment that Sano Paila Cooperative, established and operating an office in Birganj-6 Adarsh ​​Nagar, embezzled a total of Rs.

On 21 July 2080, 52 savers, including Nazneen Begum, filed a complaint with the District Police Parsa claiming that the small step cooperative had embezzled 40 million 34 lakh 24 thousand 23 rupees. After that, 207 savers including Vishal Sahni Godhi filed a complaint on 22 August 2080 claiming that their Rs 45.8 million was embezzled. Later, on February 2, 2081, 179 savers, including Manish Kumar Siska, filed a complaint claiming that Rs. 245.8 million was embezzled.

It has been found that 1 billion 150 million 91 million 44 thousand 395 rupees have been 'transferred' from the small step cooperative to the account of Swarnalakshmi multi-purpose cooperative organization alone. In the case of the small step cooperative, after the complaint was registered, the police only investigated the misappropriation of the cooperative's funds, but later, according to the report of the parliamentary inquiry committee, they also investigated organized crime and money laundering. 

The police conducted a thorough investigation by collecting the audit report, day book, vouchers, software called 'GCS' of the cooperative. He is also the Chairman of Gorkha Media Network. He was working as the chairman of this cooperative from 20 December 2070 to 22 August 2080. The cooperative has Anantababu Rai, Neha Paudel and Sunit Shrestha as vice presidents. Bhupendra Rai, Chappan Mian and Devendrababu Rai are the secretaries.

It has been seen that they have left their responsibilities after sitting in office for a certain period of time. Similarly, Srishti Manandhar and Kumar Ramtel are Treasurers, Sunit Shrestha Vice President, Ashraf Ali Siddiqui Manager, Than Bahadur Budha Magar, Dhiraj Kumar Das, Ashok Yadav, Devendra Babu Rai, Radhechandra Yadav are members. Similarly, Sagar KC Audit Committee member and coordinator, Pramod Bhattarai, Manisha Pandey and Sanju Neva are also Audit Committee members. 

Earlier on 23 October 2080, the first charge sheet was filed in the court and on 2 February 2081. At that time, 12 persons including Radhechandra Yadav, Neha Paudel, Anantababu Rai, Devendrababu Rai, Geetendrababu Rai, Ashraf Ali Siddiqui, Sahappan Mian, Srishti Manandhar, Than Bahadur Budha Magar, Dhiraj Kumar Das, Sunit Shrestha and Ashok Yadav are absconding. Only Kumar Ramtel is in jail.

 Gorkha Media Network Pvt Ltd ex-director/shareholder and Nature Herbs International Pvt Ltd ex-director/shareholder Chabilal Joshi and Gorkha Media Pvt Ltd then managing director Ravi Lamichhane, Sano Payla Savings Co-op former auditor Pramod Bhattarai and Nature Herbs International Pvt Ltd director/shareholder Ram Bahadur Khanal in custody are.