Kathmandu, March 17 -- The Department of Revenue Investigation has decided to send a case related to foreign exchange misappropriation of Rs4.16 billion through Hundi, an illegal money transfer system, to the Department of Money Laundering Investigation to see if defendants in the case had invested their illegal income for further gains.
On February 4, the Revenue Investigation Department filed a case at the Dhanusha District Court against eight people for misappropriating foreign currency through Hundi, which the DRI says is the largest ever Hundi case it has registered in court.
The department has named Rameshwor Purbe, Mina Devi Shah, Bijaya Yadav, Mokhtar Ahamad, Santosh Mahato, Naresh Mahato, Suraj Thakur and Pappu Kumar Das as defen...