Kathmandu. A case has been filed against 22 people in connection with the Smart Telecom scam. A case has been filed against them at the Kathmandu District Court on the charge of fraud, organized crime and banking offense.

The defendants in the case are Sarbendra Jeshi, Narendra Ulak, Palika Shrestha, Jyoti Prakash Pandey, Bhaskar Narsingh Joshi, Prithvi Bahadur Pandey, Prajanya Rajbhandari, Kabi Kumar Tibrewal, Dipankar Shakya, Shalikram Belbase, Shova Shrestha, Khumnath Adhikari, Satish Lal Acharya, Sachin Lal Acharya, Bhawana Singh Shrestha, Bhupendra Bhandari, Niraj Shrestha and Barsha Adhikari Pokharel, among others.

The case filed against 22 people, including the banker, has claimed a total of Rs 96.12 billion.

The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police had submitted a case to the Government Attorney’s Office on Friday after completing investigation into the case of causing loss to the state by auctioning the property of Smart Telecom. The case was filed in the court on the basis of this file.