Kathmandu, May 4
The government has decided to investigate the legality of assets belonging to agitating transport entrepreneurs and freeze their bank account.
The Minister for Home Affairs decided to investigate assets of the office bearers of the Federation of Nepalese National transport Entrepreneurs and transport committees, ministry sources told Onlinekhabar.
The Department of Transport Management will make the details of the office-bearers to the Department of Money Laundering Investigation. The details of the leaders have already been collected by the District Administration Offices across the country.
According to sources at the ministry, the department has written to the Nepal Rastra Bank through the Finance Ministry to freeze the bank accounts of the agitating transport entrepreneurs.
Meanwhile, the government has said it is ready to address the genuine demands of the entrepreneurs if they sit for negotiations.
