KATHMANDU, April 4: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has shown keen interest in the case filed by the Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) against the 100 percent foreign investment information technology (IT) company Cotiviti Nepal Pvt Ltd.

KATHMANDU, March 31: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has filed a case against Cotiviti Nepal Pvt Ltd, on charge of revenue leakage, seeking to recover Rs 10.36 billion from the company.

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 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, 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 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 30: The Department of Customs (DoC) has been lenient to take action against the officials involved in the inspection of more than one quintal of gold smuggled through the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). According to sources, the report of the internal investigation committee made by the DoC is going to be liberal to the employees involved in the inspection.

KATHMANDU, July 30: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) arrested one individual on Sunday morning in connection with the 100 kg gold smuggling. The gold was seized by a DRI team from outside the Tribhuvan International Airport a few days ago.

KATHMANDU, July 28: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has launched a manhunt for Rakesh Kumar Adukia, who is one of the two prime suspects on the DRI 'radar' since the seizure of around 100 kg of smuggled gold from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, July 26: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has recovered several cartons labeled as 'brake shoes' from a house in Kamalpokhari, Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, July 25: It is suspected that the owner of IMS Group, Deepak Malhotra, who has access to the CCTV cameras of the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), helped to transfer smuggled gold from Hong Kong to the Indian border by taking a commission of Rs 200,000 per kg.

Gold seized from TIA weighs 155 kg!

July 20, 2023 17:28 pm

KATHMANDU, July 20: The weight of gold smuggled through Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) was found to be 155 kg including the brake shoe.

KATHMANDU, Jan 3: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has filed cases against two individuals on charge of evading taxes worth Rs 390 million.

KATHMANDU, Nov 14: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Monday filed cases at the Patan High Court, against two traders accused of using fake VAT bills to evade the government taxes.

KATHMANDU, Oct 11: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Tuesday filed cases at the High Court, Patan, against four individuals accused of smuggling goods.

KATHMANDU, Sept 4: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) filed cases against three traders for allegedly being involved in revenue leakage.

KATHMANDU, August 9: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Monday filed cases against four individuals accused of misappropriating foreign exchange.

KATHMANDU, June 15: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has registered 113 cases against 281 persons on the charge of tax fraud and foreign exchange irregularities recorded in the last eight months of the current fiscal year 2021/22.

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.

KATHMANDU, May 9: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Thursday filed cases against three individuals accused of evading value added tax (VAT) and income tax worth Rs 85.37 million.

KATHMANDU, April 25: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has filed cases against operators of three companies for evading revenue amounting to over Rs 180 million by creating fake bills.

KATHMANDU, March 30: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Wednesday filed a case against Amit Kumar Agrawal on the charge of the revenue leakage worth Rs 38.03 million.

KATHMANDU, March 11: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has registered a writ petition against the Bottlers' Nepal Limited on tax scam.

KATHMANDU, March 8: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Sunday filed cases against four individuals on the charge of revenue leakage amounting Rs 44.63 million.

KATHMANDU, March 3: The Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) has recommended to the government authorities to file a lawsuit against Bottlers Nepal on the charge of revenue leakage.

KATHMANDU, Feb 6: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has filed cases against 12 individuals on the charge of revenue leakage and has sought to recover Rs 3.36 billion from them.

KATHMANDU, Feb 5: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has filed cases against four individuals on charge of revenue leakage, seeking to recover Rs 365.56 million.

KATHMANDU, Jan 25: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) filed cases against four persons on the charge of misappropriation of foreign currency worth Rs 376.41 million at the Kathmandu District Court on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Dec 27: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI), seeking to take action against Bottlers Nepal on charge of revenue leakage, has forwarded its final investigation report to the Public Prosecutor Office (PPO) on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Dec 26: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has asked the representatives of four firms to be present at the department on suspicion of being involved in revenue leakage.

KATHMANDU, Dec 19: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI), which has been investigating the cases of revenue leakage by the Bottlers Nepal Pvt Ltd, has stepped up preparations to file a lawsuit against the multinational company.

KATHMANDU, Dec 6: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Monday filed cases against five traders accused of revenue leakage by using counterfeit invoices of the Value Added Tax (VAT).

KATHMANDU, Dec 5: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Sunday filed cases against two individuals on charge of evading tax, seeking to recover Rs 447.38 million from the accused.

KATHMANDU, Nov 3: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Wednesday filed cases at the High Court, Patan, against the proprietors of 17 firms accused of being involved in revenue leakage.

KATHMANDU, June 7: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has filed cases against 10 individuals on charges of evading tax worth Rs 175 million.

KATHMANDU, April 25: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Friday filed cases at the High Court in Patan against 16 accused individuals and firm proprietors on a charge of making revenue leakage by using fake value added tax (VAT) bills.

KATHMANDU, Jan 30: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) slapped a cash fine of more than Rs 2.42 million on 19 firms for not abiding by the government rule under Vehicle and Consignment Tracking System (VCTS) to evade tax.

KATHMANDU, Jan 19: Continuing its drive to curb firms making rampant use of fake receipts of Value Added Tax (VAT) to evade government revenue, the Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Sunday filed a case against a firm’s proprietor at Patan High Court.

KATHMANDU, Jan 11: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Sunday filed cases at the High Court in Patan against the proprietors of 14 firms on the charge of revenue leakage by using fake value added tax (VAT) receipts.

KATHMANDU, Dec 24: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Thursday filed cases against proprietors of five firms on charge of making revenue leakage worth Rs 199.6 million.

KATHMANDU, Dec 2: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Wednesday filed cases at the High Court in Patan against proprietors of five firms on a charge of making revenue leakage by using fake value added tax (VAT) bills.

KATHMANDU, July 15: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has filed cases against six firms on the charge of revenue leakage. The firms were found to have been involved in using fake Value Added Tax (VAT) bills and smuggling of the goods to evade the taxes worth Rs 4.18 billion.

KATHMANDU, Nov 19: The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) on Sunday filed cases at the Kathmandu District Court against three owners of two firms for evading taxes worth Rs 17.42 million by using the fake value-added tax (VAT) bills.

VCTS gets overwhelming response

September 21, 2019 08:35 am

KATHMANDU, Sept 21: Despite initial opposition from the private sector, over 10,000 consignments are being registered in the vehicle consignment and tracking system (VCTS) every day nowadays, according to the Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI).

KATHMANDU, April 5: The government has stripped off the Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) of additional authorities delegated by ministerial-level decisions of the Ministry of Finance.

MUMBAI, Jan 19: A probe by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has found that Pernod Ricard India Pvt Ltd, the Indian arm of the world's second-largest spirits maker, has allegedly evaded Customs duty of about Rs 6.13 billion in the last six years, sources told The Indian Express.

ITAHARI, Dec 1: The Eastern Regional Office of Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has started investigation against four factories of Biratnagar, suspecting their involvement in revenue evasion.

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: The Supreme Court on Sunday decided to give continuity to the interim order to the District Land Reform Office, Lalitpur and the Department of Revenue Investigation not to carry out any action against Kanak Mani Dixit, a noted journalist and chairman of Sajha Yatayat.