{"id":36990,"date":"2026-08-24T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/news\/36990\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:55:07","slug":"prabhu-bank-rs-48-crore-fraud-case-prabhu-banks-chief-business-officer-rashmi-pant-gives-statement-to-the-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/36990\/","title":{"rendered":"Prabhu Bank Rs 48 crore fraud case: Prabhu Bank&#8217;s Chief Business Officer Rashmi Pant gives statement to the police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kathmandu. Prabhu Bank&#8217;s Chief Business Officer Rashmi Pant has claimed that she did not misuse the loan amount in connection with the Rs 48 crore fraud case. <\/p>\n<p>According to Panta, the amount was used to purchase land related to Asian Village Resort and to repay old debts.\u00a0 The CIB is investigating the case. The final conclusion of the charges against Panta would be taken on the basis of investigation and evidence. <\/p>\n<p>The CIB has also taken statements of six other bankers besides five bankers who have been booked in connection with the Rs 48 crore fraud case. Dipendra Babu Bista working in the marketing department of the bank and 6 other bankers have also given statements in the case of Prabhu Bank. <\/p>\n<p>The charge sheet along with their statements has already been registered at the Patan High Court. This is the statement given by the bank&#8217;s Chief Business Officer Rashmi Pant to the police: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>}<strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36980 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-1.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-1-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-1-1024x638.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-1-768x478.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36981 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-2.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-2-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-2-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-2-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-2-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36982 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-3.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-3-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-3-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-3-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-3-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36983 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-4.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-4-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-4-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-4-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-4-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36984 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-5.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-5-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-5-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-5-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-5-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36985 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-6.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-6-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-6-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-6-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-6-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36986 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-7.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-7-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-7-1024x422.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rashmi-bayan-7-768x317.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"FU6jTTeAv1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/36978\/\">Prabhu Bank Rs 48 crore scam: Apart from the defendant, six bankers, including Dipendra Bista, have also given statements to the CIB.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cPrabhu Bank Rs 48 crore scam: Apart from the defendant, six bankers, including Dipendra Bista, have also given statements to the CIB.\u201d \u2014 Banking Sansar :: Nepal&amp;apos;s No. 1 Banking News portal\" src=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/36978\/embed\/#?secret=OMJDi4duzG#?secret=FU6jTTeAv1\" data-secret=\"FU6jTTeAv1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Details of the incident can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bocs\/\">Banking Sansar Case Study page at <\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Prabhu Bank&#8217;s Chief Business Officer Rashmi Pant has claimed that she did not misuse the loan amount in connection with the Rs 48 crore fraud case. According to Panta, the amount was used to purchase land related to Asian Village Resort and to repay old debts.\u00a0 The CIB is investigating the case. The final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,123,126,129,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-en","category-banking-update-en","category-banking-news-en","category-special-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rasmi-panta.jpg","publishedDateNp":"\u096e \u092d\u093e\u0926\u094d\u0930 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0969, \u0938\u094b\u092e\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u0968:\u0969\u096d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36991,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36990\/revisions\/36991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/36987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}