Grey-List' and National Security

Currently, most of the smuggling is being paid outside of Nepal. Transactions are conducted in crypto currency. Which is causing risk to Nepal's national security.

चैत्र २९, २०८१

रमेश धमला

Grey-List' and National Security

Last March 4, the police arrested Kusang Lama with 1.3 million 75 thousand euros and 3 million 20 thousand US dollars from Tokha in Kathmandu. According to the exchange rate of June 5th, Nepalese rupees are 25 million and 19 million rupees. Sindhupalchok Bhotekoshi ordinary truck driver Kusang who has entrusted such a large sum? What was the amount that was going to be brought to the truck going to Rasuwa? And who owns it? Is it enough to suspect that Kusang was arrested with 7 kilos of gold in January 2073?

If the answer to these questions cannot be found, it may not be so easy for Nepal to get out of the gray list of wealth laundering. Because it was not only worth 25 million gold, but how can you say that it was not an arms dealer? There was no drug payment, how to know?

The reason for Nepal being on the gray list of money laundering is the lack of control over money earned from illegal trade, smuggling, crime and corruption and the opportunity to easily invest in various places to make such money appear legitimate. All the ministers and employees of the government turned a blind eye to this. 

gold smuggler access 

60 kilos of gold left from Tribhuvan International Airport on 2nd July 2080 was recovered after passing airport customs. The 'break shoe' brought from Hong Kong in the name of ready trade was covered with gold. However, it has been revealed through police investigation that there is a Chinese group running the 60 kg gold ferry. But that is only for one batch of 60 kg. It has been revealed that the same group is running a gold network from Hong Kong and Dubai together. How did the security agencies have no information about the large network running from the place of gold mining in Ropani, Tokha, Kathmandu? That is the most serious matter. 

Nepali citizenship and passport were found with 6 Chinese citizens accused of involvement in smuggling. How did the district administration office give that citizenship? How did citizenship and passport become possible for non-citizens? Be it smuggling from the airport or citizenship from the administration, all these are the biggest weaknesses of those who sit in the state control body over national security. 

Among the main accused by the CIB, Dauzing Wang had been living in Nepal in the guise of a fruit trader for 10 years. Dawa Chiring has not been in Nepal for 8 years. Dawa not only married Rolpak's Amala Roka to create a criminal network, he also found out how the government bodies operate by gaining access to all mechanisms of the state through Maoist leader Varshman Pun, former Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun's son Dipesh, former Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara and his son Rahul. If these Chinese had searched for whether they spoke Nepali language or not when they were going to apply for citizenship and passport, such a large network would hardly have been prepared. 

Where did the large amount of gold payment of crores come from? Where is the amount of smuggling being invested? is the scariest part. 

Now, in terms of national security, when and how do we investigate who are those who invested in gold smuggling in the same way as drugs yesterday? Yesterday, Nepal was made a transit in counterfeit notes and drug trade. Somehow those same groups have increased investment in gold? is the subject of the search. But, the state was never interested in it and it went out of control. 

All smuggling money from Nepal is being paid in cryptocurrency. CIB prosecuted 4 billion crypto transactions against only Nepalese who bought gold in Nepal. The CIB, which prosecuted the case between gold and the National Bank Act, has not been able to search the assets of crypto traders due to lack of law. 

According to the police officers involved in the investigation, most of the smuggling payments are now being made outside Nepal. As many as have come to Nepal, their transactions are running in crypto. Which is causing a risk to Nepal's national security. 

According to the police data, earlier Chinese gold smugglers living in Nepal and online gambling and Hundi transactions were revealed through crypto-based investigations. In the year 2074, for the first time, CIB investigated 7 accused in crypto transactions worth 4 crores. Although the National Bank took it seriously, the investigation and action was not taken seriously. CIB's investigation has shown that the same group including Meen Bahadur GC, who was arrested on the charge of Hundi business, had a transaction of 2 trillion 86 billion. Similarly, the fact that a group of Chinese who deal in gold has done 4 trillion crypto transactions has also been revealed. 

In the research conducted by CIB alone, 6 trillion 92 billion cryptos have been traded in 6 years. Only a limited number of those businessmen were arrested. 

Where did the amount of the cooperative go? 

According to the study conducted by the special investigation committee on misappropriation of cooperative society savings funds led by UML MP Surya Thapa, loans of 53 billion rupees have flowed from only 40 cooperatives. However, it is mentioned in the report that the basis for raising the amount is weak. Where did that easy money go? The directors and borrowers of some cooperatives are abroad. Only some of the businesses they have invested in are in Nepal. Most of the loans are taken illegally and run their own private business. Which in itself is money laundering. The state did not know that such a large amount of money was withdrawn from the cooperative, or even after receiving it, it did not try to stop it, the answer has not come yet. This is another reason for being on the gray list of money laundering. Government employees involved in corruption, those who earn money from illegal transactions or defrauding revenue all kept money in cooperatives and showed that they took out loans from there. which was beyond the scope of the bank. 

The security agency suspects that illegal money is being used in some political, religious and various movements.

On the one hand, at the time when the country is in financial crisis, it is too late to create an environment where the government can investigate and take action independently before the groups that try to spoil the political situation by investing illegal money and take advantage of it become more active. If all the political parties are not on the same page, everyone has to bear the consequences of the deterioration of the security situation.

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