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Kathmandu. Attorney General Ramesh Badal has said that there is no truth in the rumor that the police will charge anyone with money laundering. Speaking at the ‘Interaction with the Media on Prevention of Money Laundering’ program organized in Kathmandu on Friday, he said this.
He also said that the Money Laundering Act has been amended to allow investigation into 39 offenses. He clarified that the case will be moved forward based on the level of risk to the state, not on the basis of the offense.
He said, ‘It is not true that the police will charge anyone with money laundering individually. This needs to be stopped. The government mobilizes the police. The police are led by the government. It is wrong to say that the government will launch cases indiscriminately. We had a list of 34 offences involved in the offence in the Act. Five have been added recently. Five subjects, including hundi, have been added. If 39 offences are committed, the relevant bodies can investigate the laundering of assets.’
He also said that it is necessary for the state to have the details of the integrated assets of every citizen, and said that although the collection of the details of the integrated assets of citizens has started, there is a problem with the national identity card.
He said that it is difficult to integrate assets as the distribution of national identity cards is not fast enough. He said that the Supreme Court has paved the way for integrated data collection and now the way is open to connect all the state bodies to the integrated data system.
He said, “The state needs to have the details of the integrated assets of each person. Where is his property? Where did he register his organization? How much tax did he pay? To integrate that tax, we had tried to implement the National Identity Card. The National Identity Card is not moving at that speed. During the implementation phase, it was stopped due to the interim order of the Supreme Court.”
Noting that some amendments have been made to the law related to asset purification, he said that all responsible bodies should be involved in its implementation.
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