Mar 23, Kathmandu- It has been found that Nepali agents have set up fake companies and transacted crores through dozens of accounts in betting, which is illegal in Nepal.

It has been revealed that 6 Nepali agents have made millions of transactions through betting applications used for betting on various games and other activities in the world.

According to the police, it was found that in the preliminary details, they made a transaction of around 600 million by playing betting at different times.

Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office Superintendent of Police Somendra Singh Rathore informed that 23-year-old Dilip Singh Kathayat, who lives in Bhaktapur Lokantali with Jumla house, Bhupalraj Neupane of the same place, Nayan Raj Bhandari, Barun Kumar Singh of Sarlahi, Basu Dev Pandey of Kathmandu and Shivani Tamang of Kavrepalanchowk were involved as agents in the betting.

According to him, based on the information that betting is going on, in the investigation conducted by the police in Baneshwor, Pepsicola in Kathmandu, and Lokantali in Bhaktapur, they were found to be agents of '1XBet', which is used in betting games. It has also been revealed during the investigation that they have used more than 336 SIM cards of various service provider telecom companies.

Since the commission is determined based on the amount collected and paid by them, it has been found that various people are lured by greed and open accounts in the digital wallet in their name.

Among them, eight accounts in the name of Dilip, Bhupal Raj, and Nayanraj and two corporate accounts in the name of two fake companies in the name of relatives were found to be operating 12 accounts for betting transactions.

Looking at the transactions of 9 of those accounts, it has been seen that a total of 77.77 million 87 thousand transactions have been done so far. According to the police, Barun's account was found to have 82 lakhs and Shivani's account 47 lakhs.

According to the facts found in the police investigation, they also found that they opened accounts worth 41 crores in digital wallets in the name of 35 other people, and 12.25 million transactions were made in 34 accounts of 15 other people. From the accounts of the arrested persons, it has been found that there was a transaction of Rs.8 million.

After arresting them, District Police Complex Bhaktapur and Kathmandu have started an investigation under section 4 of Section 125 of the Criminal Code under the offense of not betting.