The Metropolitan Police Crime
Division today arrested six people, including Rohit Lal Shrestha, 34, of
Thamel, head teller at Thamel branch of KIST Bank Ltd., for defrauding the bank
of NPR Eight million on August 26. Other arrestees are Laxman Adhikari,
26, of Gorkha, Prakash Nepali, 24, of Chitwan, Rameshwar Paudel, 26, of
Nuwakot, Amrit Tamang Lama, 33, of Kavre and Krishna Sijwal, 44, of Pyuthan.
The MPCD had constituted a probe team under SP Hari Bahadur Pal to look into
the case after KIST Bank sought police’s help on the same day the incident
occurred.
According to SSP Bijaya Lal
Kayastha, MPCD in-charge, Shrestha was the mastermind behind the fraud, hiring
five people to execute it. Shrestha, who had been working at the KIST branch as
head teller for three years, had hatched the plan to clear the debt he owed to
various people and financial institutions. “As per Shrestha’s plan, Paudel made
a call to the Thamel branch office asking for eight million rupees. He
identified himself as Gyanendra Khadka, manager of the bank’s Kalanki branch,
and informed that he was sending Nepali and Siljal there to collect the cash
due to dearth of cash at the Thamel branch,” DSP Prajit KC said.
Police said they were
investigating possible involvement of other bank staff in the loot. They have
charged Shrestha and his accomplices with fraud.
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