KATHMANDU, April 17: The individuals detained in connection with the misappropriation of funds at Hamro Naya Krishi Agriculture Cooperative in Kathmandu have been released.

KATHMANDU, April 14: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has summoned Nepali Congress lawmaker and industrialist Binod Chaudhary for questioning regarding the illegal registration of land previously owned by Bansbari Leather and Shoe Factory. The land was transferred to the name of a private entity, the Chaudhary Group, highlighting a legal investigation.

KATHMANDU, March 26: After the Gold Smuggling Probe Commission concluded that there were errors in the investigation into the gold smuggling case, the officers working in the CIB, the police office leading the investigations, were transferred. However, despite being involved in the investigation of gold smuggling and transferred elsewhere for the same, two inspectors have been recalled to the CIB.

KATHMANDU, March 24:  Four police inspectors serving in the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police have been transferred.

KATHMANDU, March 22: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CIB) of Nepal Police is continuing its investigation into the alleged land grabbing of the Bansbari Leather and Shoe Factory.

KATHMANDU, March 22: The recording of a statement from Krishna Bahadur Mahara, vice chairman of CPN (Maoist Centre) was completed on Thursday. Mahara is under police custody for investigation related to the gold smuggling scam.

KATHMANDU, March 18: Vice Chairman of the ruling CPN (Maoist Center) Krishna Bahadur Mahara who was arrested from Kapilvastu district this morning in connection with gold smuggling has been brought to Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, March 17: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has received the report of the High-Level Probe Commission on Gold Smuggling. The commission, chaired by former high court judge Dilli Raj Acharya, submitted its findings to the CIB on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, March 15: Additional Inspector General of Police (AIG) Shyam Lal Gyawali has been appointed as the head of the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police.

KATHMANDU, Feb 28: Patan High Court has allowed the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police to detain 10 bankers who were arrested on the charge of lending more than the mortgage valuation for seven days.

KATHMANDU, Feb 15: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) has already written letters to Nepal Police four times, requesting the latter to investigate the illegal distribution of driving license. However, an investigation by the police into the matter is yet to begin.

KATHMANDU, Feb 7: Police have released three individuals including Arun Kumar Chaudhary who were arrested on the charge of embezzlement of 10 ropani government land belonging to Bansbari Leather and Shoe Factory Limited.

KATHMANDU, Jan 21: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has instructed the concerned police department to furnish the file related to the investigation of misappropriation of the finances of several cooperatives by Gitendra Babu (GB) Rai, the chairman of Gorkha Media Group, and Rabi Lamichhane, the former managing director of the company and current chairman of Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP). A CIB officer stated that the file of the ongoing investigation at the police office outside the valley has been sent to Kathmandu for further investigation.

KATHMANDU, Jan 10: Former Minister of State Yashoda Kumari Lama has reached the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) office to meet Ram Bahadur Bamjan, who was arrested in Kathmandu on Tuesday on charges of murder, kidnapping and sexual violence. She defended Bamjan, claiming that he had become a victim of false publicity.

KATHMANDU, Nov 9: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has urged the depositors whose money was allegedly embezzled by Deurali Multipurpose Cooperative Ltd of Lalitpur to lodge their complaints.

KATHMANDU, Sept 17: A case has been formally registered against 29 individuals involved in the recent 60 kg gold smuggling scam.

KATHMANDU, Sept 13: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has submitted the probe report on the 60 kg gold smuggling case to the district government attorney's office in Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, Sept 10: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has interrogated Bhimkant Bhandari, the owner of BIDH lab, in connection with the 60 kg gold smuggling case.

KATHMANDU, Sept 9: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested three more individuals in connection with the 60 kg gold smuggling case.

KATHMANDU, Sept 5: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has uncovered that the 60 kg gold smuggling network, recently seized, used WeChat and WhatsApp for communication. Ever since the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police started its investigation into the smuggling case, it has been found that their network has been expanded through WeChat and WhatsApp, while testing the technical devices used by them, including mobiles phones.

KATHMANDU, Sept 5: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested one more person in the course of investigation into the smuggling case of nearly 60 kg of gold brought from Hong Kong.

KATHMANDU, Sept 5: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has taken the statements of Dipesh Pun, son of former Vice President Nanda Kishor Pun, and Rahul Mahara, son of Maoist Vice Chairman and former Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara.

KATHMANDU, Sept 1: It has been found that Chinese criminal gangs are involved in various criminal activities in Nepal, ranging from gold smuggling to match-fixing, call bypass, human trafficking, ATM vandalism, online fraud, and illegal foreign currency trading.

KATHMANDU, Sept 1: About nine kilos of smuggled gold stolen from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) Customs Office has been revealed to be in the possession of Daojin Wang.

KATHMANDU, Aug 30: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) has suggested the government to form a separate institution to carry out financial crime investigation, citing increasing cases of financial fraud.

KATHMANDU, August 30: Former Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara's son Rahul has been arrested by the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police in connection with a gold smuggling case.

KATHMANDU, Aug 27: In the case of Lalita Niwas land-grab scam, a case will also be prosecuted against Krishna Bahadur Raut, secretary at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The District Government Attorney Office (DGAO) has decided to include Raut as a defendant as well, despite CIB had earlier stated not to make Raut as a defendant.

KATHMANDU, Aug 23: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police submitted the probe report to the Office of the District Government Attorney (ODGA), Kathmandu, on Tuesday, assessing the loss of around Rs 18 billion in the case of embezzlement of government land inside Lalita Niwas in Baluwatar. The report recommended making 238 people defendants and claiming Rs 18 billion in compensation from them.

KATHMANDU, August 23: The major political parties in parliament have agreed to form an inquiry commission to investigate and examine the gold smuggling cases that have occurred thus far.

KATHMANDU, Aug 21: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has submitted the investigation report of the Lalita Niwas land grab case in Baluwatar to the Office of the District Government Attorney (ODGA) on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 21: Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has taken statements from former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Dr Baburam Bhattarai in connection with the ongoing investigation on Lalita Niwas land-grab scam.

KATHMANDU, Aug 20: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has prepared to submit the probe report regarding the embezzlement of Lalita Niwas land in Baluwatar to the Office of District Government Attorney today.

CHITWAN, Aug 18: An MBBS student has been arrested from Chitwan on the charge of making a fake academic certificate.

KATHMANDU, Aug 16: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested four more Chinese nationals in connection with the 60.716 gold recovered from a taxi outside the Tribhuvan International Airport on July 19.

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: After the government handed over the responsibility of investigating the recent gold smuggling case to the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police, the main opposition party in Parliament, the CPN-UML, has been demanding a high-level investigation committee to probe the scam.

KATHMANDU, August 14: The ruling Nepali Congress (NC) has stood against the demand put forth by the main opposition party as well as a section of its own lawmakers to form a high-level judicial committee to investigate the infamous 100 kg gold smuggling case.

KATHMANDU, Aug 14: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has written a letter to the Mint Division of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) asking the latter to weigh the gold seized from outside the Tribhuvan International Airport a few weeks ago.

KATHMANDU, Aug 14: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has released a real doctor who was arrested during the CIB operation against those who obtained fake academic certificates to become doctors.

KATHMANDU, Aug 11: Even though the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police proved that Sunil Sharma's educational certificate was fake eight years ago, he was arrested for an investigation only on Thursday. The CIB said that Nepali Congress lawmaker and medical entrepreneur Sharma was arrested on the charge of forging his ISC educational qualification certificate. Sharma was arrested by the CIB team from his house in Golfutar, Kathmandu. Along with him, the police arrested Dr Ranjit Kumar Yadav, Dr Amit Chaudhary, Dr Ram Babu Yadav and Dr Elina Shah on the charge of possessing fake certificates.

KATHMANDU, August 11: The Kathmandu District Court has ordered the police to conduct an investigation against Nepali Congress lawmaker Dr Sunil Sharma after releasing him from custody.

KATHMANDU, Aug 11: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested one more person on the charge of obtaining a fake academic certificate to become a doctor.

KATHMANDU, Aug 11: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested two more persons in connection with the fake academic certificate case.

KATHMANDU, Aug 9: Nepal Police has arrested two people on charge of their involvement in online sexual abuse.

KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has started an investigation into the 100 kg gold smuggling case after the Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) gave it the responsibility to do so. According to CIB sources, Superintendent of Police (SP) Sanjay Singh Thapa has been appointed as the chief investigation officer for the investigation into the gold smuggling case.

KATHMANDU, Aug 7: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CIB) of Nepal Police has issued an arrest warrant against four former ministers including Nepali Congress (NC) leader Bijay KumarGachchhadar in connection with the Lalita Niwas land grab scam.

KATHMANDU, Aug 4: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) is probing the one quintal gold smuggling case, but the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) is going to be assigned with investigating organized crime.

KATHMANDU, July 27: Nepal Police arrested three individuals on charge of their involvement in the call bypass, breaching the state rules that led to a significant revenue leakage.

KATHMANDU, July 24: Police on Monday arrested two more individuals from Lalitpur on charges of their involvement in the Lalita Niwas land grab scam.

KATHMANDU, July 3: The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested two more people allegedly involved in the Lalita Niwas land-grab scam.

CHITWAN, July 6: Three people have been arrested for electrocuting two rhinos. The two rhinos were killed by electrocution on the banks of the Narayani River in Sitapur, Madhyabindu Municipality-2, Nawalpur on January 20. The three people who were arrested by the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police on May 26 on the charge of killing the rhinos were made public by the Chitwan National Park Office, Kasara, on Wednesday.