SP Apilraj Bohra informed that gold bars, bangles, rings and other jewelery were recovered along with the money. The money found in his room was counted by the police using a machine.
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The police have seized jewelery with illegal amount of Rs 4 crore from Vinod Kumar Shrestha's house. On Tuesday, the police recovered 9837.96 grams of gold and 3218.492 grams of silver from his two-and-a-half-storeyed house in Kathmandu Metropolitan City-26, Gongbu, along with 42,250,000 rupees.
SP Apilraj Bohra informed that gold bars, bangles, rings and other jewelery were recovered along with the money. The money found in his room was counted by the police using a machine.
According to Bohra, it has been revealed in the preliminary investigation that Shrestha was doing gold mortgage and depositing money in meter badges. "It has been seen that from gold shops to individuals, they are also trading money by pledging gold," he said, "After arresting him, we are investigating further." Shrestha of Gorkha Municipality-6 has a professional family background. They had a cloth business in the Gorkha market. Shrestha, who is endowed with ancestral wealth from cloth business in Gorkha, used to give gold to Gorkha's gold shops with money, from taking gold as collateral to investing money.
People who know him say that after selling the houses and lands of Gorkha, he has been keeping gold in Kathmandu as well as investing the money and putting the money on interest. He has three sons, they are also in business.
According to SP Bohra, he will be prosecuted after investigating the matter of undisclosed assets and keeping them illegally.
