Nepal, June 15 -- A case has been registered against Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) Chairman and former Deputy Prime Minister Rabi Lamichhane in Parsa on charges of misappropriating cooperative funds. He is currently under police remand in Bhairahawa jail in connection with the Supreme Cooperative Fraud case of Rupandehi.

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A case has been registered against Lamichhane on charges of misappropriating Rs 57.4 million pf the fund saved by the depositors of the Sano Paila Cooperative. In the case, 29 people, including Lamichhane, have been made defendants, claiming that Rs 1.32 billion was misappropriated by the group. There are about 800 depositors of Sano Paila...