"I don't know who did business in my name"

District Police Office Butwal investigated after 1,831 savers of Supreme Cooperative complained that their hard-earned savings had been embezzled. Based on the police report, the district attorney's office filed a case against 28 people in the district court on Monday.

Deepesh, who was also the secretary and treasurer when GB Rai was the president, has claimed that he is not a shareholder in the cooperative and has no information about the amount shown in the account in his name. He claims that only Deepesh Pun is mentioned in the pesky voucher that he took Rs. I did not take the sum of three lakh rupees from the Supreme Savings and Loan Cooperative. The signature on the said receipt is not mine. As the name on the Pesky voucher is Dipesh Pun and my name is Dipesh Kumar Pun, the name is also different. Lamichhane, who is the managing director of the company, has also given the same reaction when bringing 140 million rupees to Gorkha Media. From the meeting held on February 11, 2072, GB Rai became the president and Dipesh Pun became the treasurer of the

cooperative. Later, he became the secretary again from the next general meeting held on 16th October 2076. Research has also shown that the 21st annual general meeting of the cooperative held in November 2079 was again present as the secretary. But Pun has claimed that there is no involvement and the signature was done by someone else.

Although he has been active in the political and social fields since his childhood, after the promulgation of the constitution in 2072, Pun has narrated the story of his studies about the government, cooperatives and the private sector. I left, I did not embezzle the funds of the cooperative,' he said, 'I did not remember the signature of the secretary or anything else.'

After two months, the executive of the organization called and informed the patron and then president Rai that 'we have hired you as the secretary based on the recommendation made by the patron and the then chairman to keep you as the secretary', he mentioned in the statement. "I said that I will inform GB Rai and his family members," he said.

Maitreya Savings and Credit Cooperative Society, which was established by the residents of Butwal-8, was named Supreme and brought into operation by Gitendrababu (GB) Rai and Dipesh Pun, son of former Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun. In 2057, Maitreya Cooperative became inactive due to lack of funds shortly after it was established by locals. According to the statement given by the current president of the cooperative Omprakash Gurung to the police, Raju Gurung from Butwal was the president, Maya Gurung was the vice president and Omprakash was the secretary of the Maitreya establishment.

GB Rai and Dipesh, who found that the locals could not operate the cooperative, contacted Omprakash on the phone around 2072. Since it was not possible to register a new cooperative at that time, Rai and Pun proposed to Gurung to make them shareholders of Maitreya. "If your cooperative is inactive, make us a share member, we will operate it," said Gurung's statement GB Rai became the chairman of the cooperative after establishing the share members. As mentioned in the statement, Om Prakash became the vice-president, while Raju Baral, close to GB, became the secretary, Deepesh Kumar Pun, the treasurer, Suraj Shrestha, Devendrababu Rai and Bhupendra Rai became members. "After they started operating, Maitreya's name was changed to Supreme Savings and Credit Cooperative Society," said Gurung's statement.

Gurung has given a statement that after becoming the chairman of GB, it was decided to suddenly expand the scope of the cooperative, which was inactive. According to which, in 2076, it was decided to integrate the Jai Ambe multi-purpose organization in Masina, Rupandehi. According to the said decision, it is mentioned in Gurung's statement that Jai Ambe was integrated to operate the business from Butwal-9 by the then officials of Supreme Cooperative. He said that after the merger, a new board of directors was formed. "I became the chairman of the new board of directors," he said in a statement, "the vice chairman of the new committee is Ashraf Ali, secretary Dipesh Kumar Pun, treasurer Suraj Shrestha and the members are Devendrababu Rai, Bhupendrababu Rai, Dinesh Roka, Buddhi Gurung and Mazhar Mohammad, the audit committee coordinator Bhaviswar Aryal , accounting committee members Paun Bahadur Gurung and Indira Basyal were operating. The head of the service center was Durga Chapagai Pandey. A year after that, Gurung has given a statement that a service center was opened in Jitpur of Kapilvastu in 2079. The Jitpur branch was headed by Neeraj Gurung and the head office at Butwal was Sagar KC. "During the 2079 Tihar, the money of the savers could not be returned," said Gurung's statement, "The savers protested when the money could not be returned, and Tihar was closed while the protest of the savers continued. However, even after the Tihar holiday, there was no money to return.'

It is in his statement that since then, the officer of the board of directors and the manager KC have not been in contact. 'After looking at the file on how the transaction took place, it was seen that the investment was made without proper mortgage guarantee and documents,' said Gurung, 'because the amount invested was not able to be recovered according to the law, the money of the saver could not be returned.' While operating the accounts of the cooperative, the signatures of former president GB Rai and manager Sagar KC were used. Gurung and KC have signatures after becoming president. "There was only one check in the central office and Bhairahawa service center," he said, "Kapil Vastu's service center had a separate account in operation."

The police have also arrested Roshni Gurung, the employee who deposited money in the account of Gorkha Media for Lamichhane and made him a defendant. Respondent Roshni Gurung was working in Supreme Cooperative for about 7 years. She said in the statement, 'While working in the accounting branch, prepare general vouchers, enter the GCS banking software system to keep accounts, prepare day book, transfer the amount in the saver's account based on their request, send the amount to the name of the individual and the company as told by the manager and so on. She mentioned that she has been using the user ID in the GCS banking software system that keeps accounts of the cooperative since she has been working for a long time. In his statement, "I have sent money in the name of individuals or companies as instructed by manager KC." The manager KC asked him to fill in only the name and keep everything else blank and to deposit crores of money in his company. The names of Ravi Lamichhane and Chavi Lal Joshi are known among those who sent the money in this way. The police have not questioned Ravi and Chavi for whom such a large amount of money was 'transferred', while Roshni is in custody.