KATHMANDU, June 13: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) in the past eight months filed 115 cases against 281 individuals accused of misappropriating government revenues worth more than Rs 21 billion.

According to the DRI, it filed a total of 69 cases during September-end 2021 and May-end 2022 that were related to evading taxes. Under the charge, the DRI sought to recover Rs 20.61 billion from 203 accused. Most of these cases were related to the use of fake VAT invoices and transactions done without issuing invoices.

Likewise, 46 cases were related to misappropriation of foreign currencies. A total of 78 accused of illegally trading foreign currencies were slapped with a cash penalty of Rs 1.10 billion.  

Over the review period, the DRI took action against 668 firms and cargo truck operators for breaching the rules of vehicle consignment tracking system (VCTS). The government collected cash fines worth Rs 34.32 million from the VCTS related cases.

 
• DRI
 
• revenue_leakage
 
• cases