Kathmandu, Jan. 24 -- Retrieving the amount that controversial businessman Ajeya Raj Sumargi had withdrawn from Nepal Investment Bank Limited (NIBL) after a December 25 Supreme Court interim order has become ever more complicated with his company, Muktishree Cement Industries, using the money to make a number of payments.

The amount was earlier frozen by the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), after Sumargi failed to show the source.

But in a bizarre turn of events, a division bench of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana and Justice Ananda Mohan Bhattarai quashed the December 25 interim order, asking the NIBL to "maintain the balance as it was before the interim order".

But by that time, Sumargi had already withdrawn most of the Rs801 million a...