Kathmandu, June 22 -- In one of the largest cases related to revenue fraud, the Department of Revenue Investigation on Thursday filed a case against 15 individuals at the Kathmandu District Court on the charge of evading Rs 2.98 billion in taxes by producing and selling fake Value Added Tax bills.
This is the second case filed by the department in the past three and a half months.
On March 3, the department had filed a similar case against 24 individuals for evading Rs1.75 billion in taxes through fake VAT bills.
"The persons accused in the latest case are not part of the former racket, though their modus operandi was the same," Dirgha Raj Mainali, director general of the department, told the Post.
Among the 15 accused, the department h...