The investigation process has become complicated due to bilateral mutual legal agreements, confidentiality maintained by banks located abroad, and the inability to bring to justice individuals who have committed crimes in Nepal and have traveled abroad.
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The government has given a mandate to the Commission of Inquiry, formed to investigate the assets of high-ranking political officials and employees who have held public positions since 2062/63, to investigate assets hidden abroad as well as assets in Nepal. Along with this, those who commit corruption by abusing public positions and taking the illegally acquired assets abroad will also come under the radar of judicial investigation.
However, the process of bringing such assets abroad and those living abroad under the scope of investigation is not easy. Many people who have committed crimes in Nepal and have gone abroad have not yet come under the legal scope. Although there have been initiatives in the past to trace and bring such people back by issuing red notices from Interpol, many people are living abroad due to the lack of 'appropriate cooperation' from the concerned country.
Some Nepalis and foreigners convicted of corruption in Nepal are also outside the scope of action. Diplomatic efforts and Interpol have been made to trace those who have fled abroad. Despite that, the issue of bringing back the accused and accused is becoming complicated.
Diplomatic efforts and Interpol have been made to search for people who have fled abroad. Despite that, the issue of bringing back the accused and the accused is becoming complicated. In this context, the government has given a mandate to the commission formed under the leadership of former Supreme Court Justice Rajendra Kumar Bhandari to bring assets hidden abroad under the ambit of investigation and to directly contact and coordinate with Interpol and Nepali diplomatic missions abroad for that. Former Attorney General Badri Bahadur Karki says that although the commission has been given the responsibility to investigate assets hidden abroad, it is not easy and simple.
Karki, who was the Attorney General from Jestha 2055 to Chaitra 2058, says that based on how the commission of inquiry works, it will determine whether or not to bring related people and their assets abroad under the ambit of investigation.
‘We need to see which laws are in place to investigate assets. Even in 2046, Pamphadevi hid property in Switzerland and said that she would bring it back, that was nonsense, many things need to be considered in such matters, says Karki, who is also a senior advocate.
A former Supreme Court judge also says that the issue of returning property that has reached abroad and taking action against the guilty is complex. Despite that, the former judge says that the government's efforts are commendable. He said that a complex process should be followed to bring back property that is located or hidden abroad. 'If there is a proper diplomatic initiative from the government mechanism, it can be located to see how much property is in Switzerland, and in other countries as well,' he said.
The government has given the commission a mandate to investigate political officials from local level chiefs/deputy chiefs to the Prime Minister, civil servants from joint secretaries to chief secretaries, all those above the first-class officers of the army and police, and employees like deputy secretaries if they have worked as office heads.
The way has also been opened for investigating the assets of officials of government/public and autonomous organizations. In addition, the commission has been said to ‘contact and coordinate with Nepali diplomatic missions abroad, Interpol and other investigative bodies while investigating suspicious assets hidden abroad, subject to prevailing laws’. For that, it has been said that the financial status of the concerned persons abroad will be investigated during the investigation.
It is mentioned that employees who have been complained to the commission, who have been subject to departmental action, who have an unnaturally high financial status, who have acted as intermediaries, who have worked as office heads and other positions in public bodies that have direct contact with the people such as tax and revenue administration, land administration and transport management, and who have worked in offices/bodies that are at risk from corruption for a long time or repeatedly will be given priority for investigation.
Commission of Inquiry spokesperson Ganesh KC said that if it is found that someone has illegally transported assets abroad, action will be recommended against such illegal assets and the people involved. Ganesh KC, spokesperson of the commission, says that if such illegal assets are found to have been transported abroad as per the prescribed mandate, action will be recommended against such illegal assets and the persons involved. Spokesperson KC said that legal, administrative and diplomatic initiatives and policy reforms will also be recommended to the government to trace and bring back illegal assets.
‘If it is proven from the fact that someone from Nepal has illegally transported assets abroad, the commission will make appropriate recommendations, and take whatever initiatives are necessary to bring them back,’ Spokesperson KC said, ‘Nepali people who have gone abroad seem to have immense assets. What is the source of the assets of the suspicious people? How much property tax have they paid in that country? Is there income/not? We will investigate all these issues with the relevant countries through our diplomatic channels.’
He said that Nepali missions abroad will be mobilized through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take necessary initiatives for this. If the evidence confirms that the owners of the assets acquired through crime are in your country, he said that he will also take initiatives to help return them.
There is a demand for a search warrant, saying that the assets acquired through crime in Nepal are hidden in various countries in Europe, America and Asia. However, there are also allegations that the previous governments have not shown interest in the search warrant. Prem Kumar Rai, Chief Commissioner of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, had expressed dissatisfaction in a parliamentary committee meeting, saying that the government was not cooperating in the matter of returning the assets taken abroad.
On 24 Baisakh 2080, Chief Commissioner Rai had mentioned in the meeting of the Federalism Strengthening and National Concerns Committee of the National Assembly that the black money acquired through corruption was hidden in various countries and that the government was not interested even though the other party had agreed to return it to Nepal. He had also reminded them to make a bilateral mutual legal agreement for that. However, the government did not show interest in the legal and diplomatic process accordingly. He had instructed the government to take the initiative to bring back the hidden black money by taking strong diplomatic initiatives with Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, America, Malaysia and India.
Hemanta Malla, a criminal investigation expert and former chief of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of the police, says that it is not easy to investigate assets hidden abroad. However, he says that it is not impossible to have effective discussions on this issue with diplomatic initiatives, international relations of the Nepal Police, and ‘counterparts’ of other investigative bodies.
‘It is not that investigations cannot be carried out, but how effective our efforts are, how much diplomatic capacity can be demonstrated in the investigation and investigation, the main thing is,’ says Malla, ‘At a time when the issue of bringing back people who have committed crimes and gone abroad to Nepal is becoming difficult, it is challenging to investigate assets that have already been taken abroad, but the effort should be considered a positive initiative by the government.’
Policy interference by vested interests in law-making, collusion in public procurement/contracts and import-export, service delivery and transfer-promotion, appointment and bribery to go to the 'Maldar Adda', etc., are seen to be used to legalize black money earned abroad and some of it is managed there and purified through various means and brought back to Nepal, but no detailed investigation has been conducted on this.
Crime in Nepal, shelter abroad
It is difficult not only to investigate the assets of people who have committed crimes in Nepal but are currently abroad, but also to bring them under investigation and action. Many defendants in banking crimes, cooperative fraud and corruption cases are living abroad, and no effective initiative has been taken to return them.
Pawan Kumar Karki, the then managing director of Capital Merchant and Finance Limited, who was found guilty by a Nepalese court in a banking scam case, is currently in the US. Karki, who took the money earned from banking crimes in Nepal through various means, later went there himself and obtained citizenship there. Despite Nepal's many attempts to return Karki, the US refused, citing the fact that he is a citizen of its country. The Nepal Police also tried to bring Karki back with Interpol and other US agencies, but the US refused.
Despite Nepal's many attempts to return Karki, the US refused, citing the fact that he is a citizen of its country. The Nepal Police also tried to bring Karki back with Interpol and other US agencies, but the US refused. The Nepal Police had issued a red notice through Interpol on January 7, 2016 against Karki, who had embezzled about one and a half billion rupees in loans in Nepal and fled. The red notice was issued after the information reached the US, but the police themselves had put Karki on the fugitive list by including him in a diffusion notice on January 18, 2012. After both notices were issued, the National Central Bureau (NCB) sent at least 2 dozen letters to the US, but a police officer says that they did not cooperate in returning Karki.
On October 11, the US-based NCB (Washington DC) wrote to the NCB Kathmandu (Nepal) requesting Karki's personal details and informing him that he could not be deported to Nepal, thus the issue of bringing him to justice under Nepalese law has been 'almost' closed. A case was registered against Karki and others on June 24, 2011, on charges of embezzling money by taking out loans in the names of family, relatives and acquaintances using substandard collateral. Among the accused, Karki had fled to the US.
The government has failed to bring British citizen Michael Ryder, who was convicted by a Nepalese court in the much-publicized Sudan scam case, to justice. There was a huge commission game in the corruption case filed by the Authority for irregularities in the purchase of 'Armed Personal Carriers' (APC) for the UN peacekeeping mission of the Nepal Police deployed in Darfur, Sudan.
Three former Inspectors General of Police Om Bikram Rana, Hem Bahadur Gurung, Ramesh Chand Thakuri, former AIGs Shyam Singh Thapa and Deepak Thangden, DIG Deepak Kumar Shrestha and SSP Ravi Pratap Rana, and the head of the British contractor company Assured Risk, Michael Ryder, and his Nepal representative Shambhu Bharti, were found guilty by the Supreme Court in the scam of purchasing armored vehicles that were shown to have been purchased for about 290 million rupees. Michael has not been brought to justice even after a decade and a half.
The case filed by the CIAA on 24 Jestha 2068 was settled on 1 Falgun 2068 and the special court found him guilty, although the Supreme Court reduced the fine and prison sentence, but upheld the special court's decision in the case of the guilty. On 17 Baisakh 2074, the Supreme Court finally settled the case and found Ryder and the rest of the Nepali security officials and contractors guilty. However, in this case, there was no investigation into the nexus with political, administrative and middlemen, nor was there any investigation into bribery transactions and suspicious transactions abroad, and the person convicted by the court remained outside the legal scope.
RSPB President Ravi Lamichhane is also a defendant in the case along with GB. Lamichhane joined the investigation, prosecution and judicial process, while GB Rai has been absconding for 3 years. The government has not yet been able to bring Gitendra Babu (GB) Rai, the chairman of the Gorkha Media Network, who was included in the Interpol Red Notice and was tried in half a dozen courts in Nepal on charges of cooperative fraud, money laundering and organized crime, to the legal scope. RSPB President Ravi Lamichhane is also a defendant in the case along with GB. Lamichhane joined the investigation, prosecution and judicial process, while GB Rai has been absconding for 3 years. Although GB was last said to be in Malaysia, government officials are 'unaware' of his current situation.
नेपालमा सहकारी ठगीबाट आर्जित सम्पत्ति विदेश पुर्याएको हुन सक्ने दाबी पनि सरकारी अधिकारीहरूको छ, यसमा सूक्ष्म अनुसन्धान हुन सकेको छैन । जीबीविरुद्ध नेपालका काठमाडौं, चितवन, कास्की, रूपन्देही र पर्सा अदालतमा उनीविरुद्ध मुद्दा विचाराधीन छ ।
हजारौं बचतकर्ताको अर्बौं रुपैयाँ हिनामिना अभियोगमा उनीविरुद्ध मुद्दा चले पनि कानुनी दायरा बाहिरै छन् । नेपाल प्रहरीले राईविरुद्ध १३ माघ २०८० मा डिफ्युजन नोटिस जारी गरेकामा त्यसबेला मलेसियामा रहेको खुलेको थियो । ठीक अर्को महिना (फागुन तेस्रो साता) इन्टरपोलबाट उनीविरुद्ध रेड नोटिस जारी भयो । २२ भदौ २०८१ मा इन्टरपोललाई पत्र पठाएर मलेसियाबाट नेपाल फिर्ता गर्न अनुरोध गरिएकामा सम्बन्धित देशले दिन मानेको छैन ।
नेपाल वायुसेवा निगमका लागि दुई वटा वाइडबडी जहाज खरिदमा भएको घोटाला प्रकरणसम्बन्धी अख्तियार दुरुपयोग अनुसन्धान आयोगबाट २२ चैत २०८० मा दायर गरेको मुद्दामा २० मंसिर २०८१ मा विशेष अदालतले फैसला गर्दै १ अर्ब ४७ करोड १० लाख ८५ हजार रुपैयाँ भ्रष्टाचार भएको ठहर गरेको थियो । यस मुद्दामा निगमका तत्कालीन अध्यक्ष शंकरप्रसाद अधिकारी, महाप्रबन्धक सुगतरत्न कंसाकार तथा सञ्चालक समिति सदस्यद्वय बुद्धिसागर लामिछाने (सहसचिव) र शिशिरकुमार ढुंगाना (सचिवबाट अवकाश) दोषी ठहर भएका थिए ।
नेपाली पूर्वप्रशासकहरूका अलावा यस प्रकरणमा अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय आपूर्तिकर्ता अमेरिकी कम्पनी एएआर कर्पोरेसनका अध्यक्षसमेत रहेका नेपाली मूलका बेलायती नागरिक दीपक शर्मा, जर्मन एभिएसन क्यापिटल कम्पनीका प्रतिनिधि जर्मन नागरिक क्रिश्चियन न्युहेलेन, एएआर इन्टरनेसनलका वित्तीय निर्देशक रोमानियाली नागरिक ओलेग कालिस्त्रु दोषी ठहर, एएआर कम्पनीका सीईओ जोन होल्मेस, जर्मन एभिएसन क्यापिटलकी प्रबन्ध निर्देशक अना टोपा, हाई फ्लाई एक्सका अध्यक्ष पाउलो मिरपुरी र निर्देशक गेराल्ड थ्रोन्टन विशेष अदालतबाट दोषी ठहर भए ।
दोषी ठहर विदेशी नागरिकसँग जनही डेढ वर्षको कैद सजाय र १२ करोड २५ लाख ९० हजार बिगो र त्यति नै जरिवाना हुने फैसला भएकामा प्रतिवादीहरूलाई नेपालको कानुनअनुसार कारबाही त भएन नै, सम्बन्धित देशसँग कूटनीतिक प्रक्रियाबाट कारबाही गर्ने विषयमा पनि नेपालको प्रयास कमजोर छ । वाइडबडी घोटालामा नेपालमा खरिद सम्झौता, विदेशमा घूस डिल र विदेशमै घूस रकम पार्किङ गरेका विषयहरू अख्तियार दुरुपयोग अनुसन्धान आयोगको अनुसन्धानबाट पनि खुलेको थियो ।
तर यसरी भएको घूस कारोबार र व्यवस्थापनमाथि अनुसन्धान गर्न कानुनी जटिलता मात्र होइन, लुकाइएको धन विदेशमा खोजबिन गर्नसमेत सरकारले तदारुकता देखाएको छैन । वाइडबडी प्रकरणसँग जोडिएको कालो धन सिंगापुर, दुबई, हङकङलगायत देशमा लगेर शुद्धीकरण गराएको विषय अनुसन्धानबाट खुले पनि पारस्परिक कानुनी सहायतासम्बन्धी सम्झौता, अन्य कूटनीतिक पहलमा पनि बेवास्ता हुँदै आएको छ ।
वाइडबडी प्रकरणमा अख्तियारले अनुसन्धानका क्रममा अमेरिकी सरकारसँग पनि सहयोग मागेको थियो । अनुसन्धानमा संलग्न स्रोतका अनुसार त्यस क्रममा नेपालको कानुन मन्त्रालय र अख्तियारले छुट्टाछुट्टै रूपमा काउन्टर पार्ट्ससँग समन्वय गरेकामा अमेरिकी ‘फेडेरल ब्युरो अफ इन्भेस्टिगेसन’ (एफबीआई) र न्याय मन्त्रालयका अधिकारीहरूले केही विषयमा सूचना आदानप्रदान गरे पनि विस्तृत अनुसन्धानका लागि थप विवरण नदिँदा विषय अपूरो बन्न पुगेको थियो ।
ललितपुरको महालक्ष्मीस्थानमा रहेको मितेरी सहकारी ठगी गरेर फरार पूर्वमन्त्री तथा कांग्रेस नेता धनराज गुरुङकी पूर्वपत्नी ज्योति गुरुङ १७ करोड ७२ लाख रुपैयाँ बिगो मागदाबीसहित अदालतमा मुद्दा दायर भएकी प्रतिवादी हुन् । ललितपुरको महालक्ष्मीस्थानमा रहेको मितेरी सहकारी ठगी गरेर फरार पूर्वमन्त्री तथा कांग्रेस नेता धनराज गुरुङकी पूर्वपत्नी ज्योति गुरुङ १७ करोड ७२ लाख रुपैयाँ बिगो मागदाबीसहित अदालतमा मुद्दा दायर भएकी प्रतिवादी हुन् । १ भदौ २०८२ मा गुरुङ र अन्य व्यक्तिविरुद्ध मुद्दा दायर भए पनि गुरुङ भागेर अमेरिका पुगेको बताइन्छ । नेपाल प्रहरीले ६ कात्तिक २०८१ मै उनीविरुद्ध इन्टरपोलमार्फत फरार सूचीमा राखे पनि पक्राउ परेकी छैनन् ।
सहकारी ठगीबाट आर्जित धन गुरुङले विदेश पुर्याएको दाबी त्यसबेलै अनुसन्धान अधिकृतहरूले गरेका थिए । अमेरिकाले भने गुरुङलाई नेपाल फिर्ता गरेको छैन । नेपाल प्रहरीका एक एआईजी विदेशमा भागेका व्यक्तिको खोजबिन र विदेशमा लुकाइएको सम्पत्ति फिर्तामा पारस्परिक कानुनी अभाव, कमजोर कूटनीतिक पहल र सम्बन्धित देशको अरुचि नै मुख्य कारण देख्छन् । ‘अपराध अनुसन्धानमा सहयोग माग्दा सहजै पाउने अवस्था छैन, सम्पत्ति जाँचबुझको मामिला झनै जटिल किसिमको विषय हो, यसका लागि नेपाल सरकारले जुन देशमा व्यक्ति र सम्पत्ति देखिन्छ, त्यही देशसँग प्रभावकारी पहल हुनुपर्छ,’ ती एआईजीले भने ।
नेपालमा भ्रष्टाचार, सिंगापुरमा घूस, अमेरिकामा घर खरिद
नेपालमा अपराधबाट आर्जित कालो धन विदेशमा कसरी पुर्याइन्छ भनेर स्थापित घटनाका रूपमा देखिएका पात्र हुन्– सुरक्षण मुद्रण केन्द्रका पूर्वकार्यकारी निर्देशक विकल पौडेल । पर्वत कटुवाचौपारी स्थायी घर भई हाल काठमाडौं मन्डिखाटार बस्दै आएका पौडेल भ्रष्टाचार मुद्दामा दोषी ठहर भई हाल डिल्लीबजार कारागारमा छन् । उनीविरुद्ध अदालतमा आधा दर्जन मुद्दा विचाराधीन छन् ।
१५ चैत २०६१ देखि ३० मंसिर २०६६ सम्म राष्ट्रिय सूचना प्रविधि केन्द्रमा करारमा कम्प्युटर इन्जिनियर पदमा कार्यरत र १ पुस २०६६ देखि ३ साउन २०७४ सम्म केन्द्रमा उपनिर्देशक रहेका पौडेल ४ साउन २०७४ देखि सुरक्षण मुद्रण केन्द्रको कार्यकारी निर्देशक रहेका थिए । बीचमा मन्त्रिपरिषद्बाट कार्यविधि नै संशोधन गरी निरन्तर बहालमा रहेकामा ३ वैशाख २०८० मा सार्वजनिक सम्पत्ति हानिनोक्सानी गरेको अभियोगमा अख्तियार दुरुपयोग अनुसन्धान आयोगले भ्रष्टाचार मुद्दा दायर गरेपछि निलम्बनमा परेका थिए । सुरक्षण मुद्रणका विद्युतीय उपकरणलगायत खरिदमा भएको अनियमितता प्रकरणमा उनीविरुद्ध अख्तियारले भ्रष्टाचार मुद्दा दायर गरेको थियो ।
सुरक्षण मुद्रणका विद्युतीय उपकरणलगायत खरिदमा भएको अनियमितता प्रकरणमा उनीविरुद्ध अख्तियारले भ्रष्टाचार मुद्दा दायर गरेको थियो । नेपालमा भ्रष्टाचार गरेर अमेरिका, सिंगापुर, दुबईलगायत देशमा घूस बुझ्ने र उतैका बैंक खाता खोली अन्यत्र स्थानान्तरण गरी सम्पत्ति शुद्धीकरण गराएको तथ्य अनुसन्धानबाट खुलिसकेको छ । सिंगापुरमा बैंक खाता खोलेर उतैबाट अमेरिकामा कालो धन व्यवस्थापन गरेका पौडेलले न्युयोर्कमा पत्नी एलिना बस्नेतका नाममा जग्गा पनि किनेको अनुसन्धानबाटै पुष्टि भइसकेको छ ।
सूचना प्रविधिजन्य सार्वजनिक खरिद/ठेक्कापट्टामा मिलेमतो गर्ने, त्यसको घूस विदेशमा बुझ्ने र नेपाल सरकारको पूर्वस्वीकृतिबेगर विदेशी बैंकमा डलर खाता खोली त्यही राख्ने अनि त्यसलाई वैध बनाउन विभिन्न माध्यमबाट रकम स्थानान्तरण गराउन उनले योजनाबद्ध रूपमा काम गरेको देखिन्छ । सिंगापुरको युनाइटेड ओभरसिज बैंक तथा नेपालका नबिल र इन्भेस्टमेन्ट बैंकमा खोलिएका खाताबाट अवैध रकमको कारोबार भएको देखिन्छ ।
यस्तो रकम बिमा, सेयर, घरजग्गा खरिद, जटिल प्रकृतिका प्र्रविधिजन्य क्षेत्रमा लगानी गराएका छन् । यही क्रममा उनले यस्तो अवैध कारोबार अमेरिकामा भएकी पत्नी एलिना बस्नेतबाट पनि कारोबार गरेका छन् । संयुक्त खाता प्रयोग गरी उनले कारोबार गरेको देखिन्छ ।
पौडेलविरुद्ध राजस्व अनुसन्धान विभागले करिब ६९ करोड रुपैयाँको सम्पत्ति शुद्धीकरण मुद्दा जिल्ला अदालत काठमाडौंमा दायर गरेको छ । आफ्नो व्यापार/व्यवसाय र कम्पनी नरहेको दाबी गर्ने पौडेलले कारोबार भने अस्वाभाविक रूपमा गरेको देखिन्छ । सिंगापुरमा युनाइटेड ओभरसिज बैंकमा खोलेको बैंक खाता फेब्रुअरी २१ २०२३ मा बन्द गराएको दाबी गरेका छन् । अमेरिकामा पत्नीसँग संयुक्त रूपमा १५ डिसेम्बर २०२० मा खाता खोलेकामा १३ मे २०२४ मा बन्द गराएको दाबी गरेका छन् । अमेरिकामै आफ्ना नाममा रहेको खाता पनि बन्द गरिसकेको उनको जिकिर छ ।
२०१८ देखि २०२० को अवधिमा सिंगापुरमा ब्याङ्कोटेक आईटी कम्पनीमा परामर्शदाता भएर काम गरेको दाबी पौडेलको छ । २०२३ मा उक्त खाता बन्द गराएको पनि जिकिर गरेका छन् । अमेरिकामा २०२४ मै खाता बन्द गरेको जिकिर छ ।
सिंगापुरको बैंकमा २४ मार्च २०२० देखि ८ अप्रिलको डेढ महिनामा परामर्शदाता भएर काम गरेबापत २०८० असोज ५ मा २३३६००० अमेरिकी डलर भुक्तानी लिएको जिकिर गरेका छन् । २६ सेप्टेम्बर २०२३ मा अमेरिकी न्याय मन्त्रालयले पठाएको पत्रअनुसार की बैंक नेसनल एसोसिएसनबाट एलिना बस्नेतका नाउँमा ५ लाख १५ हजार ऋण लिएकामा संयुक्त खाताबाट २ लाख २५ हजार तिरेको, बैंक अफ अमेरिकाको खाताबाट पौडेलले नै १ लाख २९ हजार एलिनाको खातामा पठाएको देखिन्छ । एलिनाले पनि संयुक्त खातामा १ लाख २१ हजार जम्मा गरेकी थिइन् । विकलले एलिनाको खातामा पैसा पठाउँदा गिफ्ट भनी उल्लेख गरेका छन् । गिफ्ट रकम नेपालमा भ्रष्टाचार गरेर लिएको घूस सिंगापुर हुँदै अमेरिकामा पुगेको अनुसन्धान अधिकारीहरू बताउँछन् ।
सिंगापुरको बैंक खाताबाट अमेरिकाको बैंक खातामा बैंकोटेकले ४ करोड ५१ लाख ८९ हजार ९ सय ५८ रुपैयाँ बराबरको अमेरिकी डलर जम्मा गरेको पनि अनुसन्धानबाट खुलेको छ । सन् २०२० मा २ लाख ४८ हजार ७ सय ७२ डलर सेयरमा लगानी गरेको पनि खुलेको छ । विकलले एलिनाका नाउँमा १ करोड ५२ लाख ७० हजार ७ सय ४० रुपैयाँ बराबरको अमेरिकी डलर जम्मा गरिदिएको, एलिनाकै नाउँमा सिंगापुरको खातामा २८ लाख ७३ हजार ३ सय ११ रुपैयाँ बराबरको रकम जम्मा गरिदिएको, घूसको सम्पत्ति विदेश पुर्याउन विभिन्न व्यक्तिमार्फत विकलले ट्रान्सफर गरेको विदेशी मुद्राबापत हुन आउने ३ करोड ७७ लाख ९१ हजार १ सय रुपैयाँ बराबर, सिंगापुरमै विकलले प्रुडेन्सियल एस्योरेन्स कम्पनी नामको बिमा कम्पनीमा बिमा शुल्क २ करोड ४४ लाख ६३ हजार ८ सय २२ रुपैयाँ बराबर, अमेरिकाकै इन्स्टासेफ कम्पनीले विकललाई सेल्स कमिसनबापत भन्दै ४ करोड बढी नेपाली रुपैयाँ बराबर डलर जम्मा गरेको देखिएको छ ।
विकलले सिंगापुरमा मुद्दती खाताका अलावा १ र ३० अक्टोबर २०१८ मा दुइटा खाता खोलेको देखिन्छ । सिंगापुरको महान्यायाधिवक्ता कार्यालयबाट २ जेठ २०८० मा पठाएको पत्रमा यो विषय उल्लेख छ । नेक्स्ट जेन सोलुसनले अमेरिकाको इन्स्टासेफलाई भुक्तानी गरेर इन्स्टासेफले सिंगापुरको पौडेलको खातामा पनि रकम जम्मा गरेको खुलेको छ । नेपालमा सार्वजनिक ओहदामा रहेकै बेला पौडेलले अमेरिकामा ६ जनवरी २०२१ (२०७७ पुस २२) मा पीआर लिएका थिए । सिंगापुरको बैंकमा स्टक्चर नोट प्रोडक्टमा पनि लगानी गरेको अनुसन्धानबाटै खुलिसकेको छ । तर, उनले अमेरिका, सिंगापुर र अन्य देशमा लुकाएको र व्यवस्थापन गरेको कालो धन फिर्ता हुन सकेको छैन । जाँचबुझ आयोगले यस विषयमा कुन प्रक्रिया अपनाउँछ भन्ने अझै अन्योल छ ।
