{"id":87824,"date":"2026-08-13T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=87824"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:15:37","slug":"shekhar-thapas-statement-on-smart-cell-scam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/08\/13\/87824\/","title":{"rendered":"Shekhar Thapa&#8217;s statement on Smart Cell scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu.\u00a0The statement of Shekhar Thapa, the then senior manager of Nepal Investment Mega Bank, has also been recorded. <\/p>\n<p>According to the police, Thapa has been questioned as a person related to the case. He resigned from the bank on August 19, 2002 and left the service. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, cases have been filed at Kathmandu District Court against the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chairman and Director of the bank on charges of fraud, organized crime and banking offense. <\/p>\n<p>In the charge sheet filed by the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) after a long investigation, it has been alleged that the property of Smart Cell, which has already been owned by the government, was auctioned in collusion with the bank to benefit Ncell. <\/p>\n<p>Police said they are taking statements from the concerned officers and employees during the investigation. <strong>See his statement below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-87820\" src=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar. com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/a-5. jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"932\" height=\"808\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-87821\" src=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar. com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/b-4. jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"911\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu.\u00a0The statement of Shekhar Thapa, the then senior manager of Nepal Investment Mega Bank, has also been recorded. According to the police, Thapa has been questioned as a person related to the case. He resigned from the bank on August 19, 2002 and left the service. Meanwhile, cases have been filed at Kathmandu District Court<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/08\/13\/87824\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Shekhar Thapa&#8217;s statement on Smart Cell scam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artha-khabar-special-en","category-bank-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87825,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87824\/revisions\/87825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/87822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}