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12 people held in forgery case
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of Nepal Police has arrested 12 people in a Rs700 million forgery case.The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of Nepal Police has arrested 12 people in a Rs700 million forgery case.
CBI Spokesperson SP Sanuram Bhattarai said four employees of Office of Company Register (OCR)—Narayan Prasad Pokharel, Umesh Man Joshi, Ashish Maharjan and Pushpa Kala Rai—are among those detained in connection to the case where the suspects allegedly used forged ownership transfer documents of Shanker Electric Industries Pvt Ltd, owned by Indian national Ram Niranjan Jatiya, in the name of Jit Bahadur Magar. Magar, who had been working for Shanker Electric for the past 16 years, had reportedly managed to swindle Rs 700 million and take out Rs 3 million loan from a bank with the help of forged business ownership papers.
Investigators have identified Rajan Prasad Lamsal and Niraj Kumar Manandhar as the principal aides of Magar. The trio along with some OCR employees had reportedly worked together to forge the papers.
“We have discovered serious discrepancies and negligence on the part of government officials as the forged documents deal with huge amount of shares and transfer ownership,” he told the Post on Thursday.
Two other suspects, Dharma Raj Rokaya and Ganga Dhar Paudel of the Office of Company Register, are at large.