Investigation Committee Arrives in Mustang to Probe Seized Electric Vehicles

Mustang. A committee formed for investigation has reached Mustang today after electric vehicles that entered through the Korala border were seized by the Armed Police.

After the electric vehicles were seized, the Ministry of Finance had formed an investigation committee under the leadership of Director Bhupalraj Shakya, who also serves as the head of the Valuation Branch under the Customs Department, Policy and Operations Division.

According to Bidur Chudall, chief of the Mustang Customs Office, the three-member team led by Shakya, for the investigation of electric vehicles imported through the Korala border, arrived in Jomsom, Mustang today via the Beni-Jomsom road.

Customs Chief Chudall informed that before the investigation team arrived in Mustang, they also monitored the electric vehicles seized by the Armed Police in Parbat and Kaski. The team has started investigating whether there are any discrepancies in the import of electric vehicles brought into Nepal from China.

The team monitored 98 electric vehicles in Pokhara Hemja and 17 in Kushma, Parbat. Customs Chief Chudall mentioned that the team also conducted an on-site inspection today of 266 electric vehicles that were customs cleared through the Korala border and brought down to Jomsom via Lo-manthang. The vehicles were parked in the bus park area in Jomsom, Gharpaong-4, Mustang.

The investigation team will depart for the Korala border on Saturday morning to monitor 394 electric vehicles kept there.

Of the 775 electric vehicles brought into Nepal by Chinese company BYD in the second week of Jestha, which started operating from the Korala border from Bhadra 31, 649 have already been customs cleared, informed Armed Police Deputy Inspector Bheshraj Giri.