Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) chairman and former Nepal home minister Rabi Lamichhane was on Monday suspended from his position as an MP following the filing of charges under the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2008.
Issuing a notice, parliament general secretary Padma Prasad Pandey confirmed that the 50-year-old former deputy prime minister has been suspended as a member of parliament following the filing of three charges against him by Kaski District Court.
The district government attorney’s office, Kaski, filed a case against Lamichhane on Sunday on three offences and sought more than Nepalese Rs 2.75 billion in compensation for the victims of a cooperative scam.
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