The convicted trader is Dawa Tasi Lama, 40, of Limi-5, Humla district. According to Dhir Bahadur Chand, registrar at the Special Court, a three-member bench of the court´s chairman Kedar Prasad Chalise and members Bhupendra Prasad Rai and Mohan Raman Bhattarai issued the verdict after Lama could not prove before the court that the money belonged to a Chinese national as claimed by him earlier.[break]
However, the Special Court did not confiscate the money laundered as Kathmandu District Court had already seized it from him in a separate case concerning foreign currency misuse.
Police on October 26, 2012 had arrested Lama from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) with 195,000 euros. He was set to fly to New Delhi by a Spice Jet flight.
Lama had claimed that the money he was carrying with him belonged to a Chinese citizen and he was going to hand over the amount to Lakpa Sherpa in New Delhi. A money laundering case was filed at the Special Court on January 4.
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