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Supreme Cooperative Fraud: Order to send Chairman Gurung to jail, demand 4 lakh bail from Dipesh Pun
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The District Court has ordered six people who embezzled funds from Supreme Savings and Credit Cooperative to be released on bail. After the detention debate that ended on Friday, the president of the cooperative, Omprakash Gurung, was ordered to be sent to jail and the other 6 people released on bail.
The bench of Rupandehi District Court Judge Sri Prakash Upreti has ordered the release of Dipesh Kumar Pun, the son of former Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun, on a bond of 4 lakhs. Similarly, Bhairahawa branch manager Durga Pandey Chapagai has been asked for bail of Rs.18 lakh, Naveen Achami Rs.10 lakh, Neeta Thapa Rs.2 lakh, Deepak Neupane Rs.445 thousand and Roshni Gurung Rs.2 lakh. The court has asked President Gurung to be detained and further investigated.
Most of the prisoners have prepared to pay the bail on Friday. District Court Information Officer Anantaraj Marasini said that six people were ordered to be released on bail and one person was ordered to be detained pending trial. The court has ordered Kumar Ramtel and Bhaviswar Aryal, who were brought from Pokhara jail during the investigation by the police, to be taken out of Kaski jail.
Similarly, the police has issued an arrest warrant against other defendants, including Gitendrababu (GB) Rai, the former chairman of the cooperative and the current guardian. "6 people have been ordered to be released on bail and one person has been ordered to be kept in custody," Marasini, information officer of the district court, said.
After a long investigation by the police, about 2 women filed a case in the district court through the district public prosecutor's office on May 3. 1 thousand 831 people were reported to the police for defrauding the amount of money that they had saved regularly in the cooperative. The police submitted a report that the officers and employees of the cooperative including Rai, Pun and Gurung had embezzled 86.18 million, 23,000 out of the 1.31 billion saved from the common fund by the group including GB Rai. There were 19 thousand 391 members in the cooperative.
