Butwan, May 9: The Revenue Investigation Department has filed cases against business persons from Rupandehi and Kapilvastu districts on charge of foreign exchange misappropriation and revenue leakage.
Chief of Department’s Butwal-based Office, Bibek Ghimire, said that four persons from Kapilvastu district face charges of foreign exchange misappropriation while proprietor of Bhanja Stores and House of Butwal, Barkat Ali Miya, were dragged on charge of revenue leakage. The cases were lodged on Thursday at the Butwal Bench of the Tulsipur High Court.
It is said that the Department’s officials had confiscated 2.13 million Indian currency while it was smuggled to Nepal from Rajesh Kumar Verma, Rakesh Kumar Verma and Jung Bahadur Verma of Suddhodan Rural Municipality-6 and Hamid Musalman of Maya Devi Rural Municipality-1 in Kapilvastu district. The four will face cases for misappropriating foreign exchange.
