Of the three servers, which are is believed to contain crucial data, seized by the joint team of DRI, district administration office and Nepal Police, DRI has yet to get access to one of them. [break]
"We have retrieved all the data from the two servers. But we are still facing problems in accessing crucial financial data as we encountered technical glitch on the third server," said Mahesh Prasad Dahal, director general of DRI.
Although he did not disclose what the technical glitch was, sources at DRI said the investigation team had encountered hardware problems on the server.
To overcome the problem, DRID has sought help of hardware specialists.
"We expect the problem to be sorted out by Thursday," Dahal said.
Home Ministry officials, however, said the problems faced in accessing membership and financial details of the company was the sole factor behind delay in filing case against Unity.
"To file the case, we need concrete figures on the number of people that Unity cheated and how much amount it collected from them. We are waiting for the crucial data from DRI," the source added.
DRI has stated that it will hand over all the data that it has unearthed so far and also the financial details of Unity to the police as soon as it gained access to the third server.
"Police will file forgery case against Unity as soon as we handover the data," Dahal said, adding that DRI too will simultaneously launch separate investigation against Unity on the cases related to revenue evasion, money laundering and capital flight.
As for other fraudulent activities, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) and Insurance Board (IB) have already forwarded formal documents to the Home Ministry seeking action Unity for the financial crime, clearly specifying the laws that it flouted.
Investigations have also shown that Unity had violated both Insurance Act and banking law of the country by providing those services without due approval from concerned regulators.
"Ministry of Commerce and Supplies (MoCS) too have forwarded a notification to the Home Ministry to take action against Unity for operating network marketing business of services despite its ban and also for flouting Consumers Rights Protection Act," said Commerce Secretary Purushottam Ojha.
Company Registrar´s Office (CRO), meanwhile, said that the government decision to deregister the company has come without due study of the existing Company Act and that it was facing problems to implement it.
Acting Company Registrar Keshav Prasad Adhikari said they had received the formal direction from Ministry of Industry on Sunday, but could not act promptly because of the lack of legal provision on forceful deregistration of any company.
Going by the existing law, CRO can scrap registration of a company only if the promoters asked for it, if the company did not renew its registration for protracted period, and if it did not submit necessary documents to the CRO for three consecutive years.
CRO officials admit that Unity´s crime was serious that not furnishing documents to the CRO for three years. "But because the law is silent on such deregistration, we do not know how to implement the decision," the added.
The most surprising thing in the whole Unity saga is that the police have not yet managed to nab its top brass, including Chairman Kashi Ram (Prasad) Gurung and Managing Director Bishnu Bahadur Chhetri.
Police say they have not yet traced their whereabouts, even though various media this week carried advertisement undersigned by Kashi Ram (Prasad) Gurung, appealing Unity clients to maintain patience.
In the advertisements, Gurung not only dared to challenge different government ministries and the state as a whole, but has also claimed that the company will come out clean from the actions launched against it.
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