{"id":37085,"date":"2026-08-24T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/news\/37085\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:25:09","slug":"ramesh-thapas-statement-on-prabhu-banks-rs-48-crore-fraud-case-i-was-not-aware-of-loan-disbursement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/37085\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramesh Thapa&#8217;s statement on Prabhu Bank&#8217;s Rs 48 crore fraud case: &#8216;I was not aware of loan disbursement&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Prabhu Bank&#8217;s manager Ramesh Thapa has stated that he was not involved in the loan disbursement of Rs 480 million in the name of Asian Village Resort Pvt Ltd. <\/p>\n<p>In the document related to the incident, Thapa has stated that he is currently working as a manager in the integrated services and implementation department of the bank and has been working in the department for the past 7 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\n<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, he was working in the human resources department of the bank and had been working in Prabhu Bank for about 5 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\n<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that he was not aware of the loan flow as it was not under his responsibility. <\/p>\n<p>The CIB has also recorded statements of six other bankers, including five bankers, who have been booked in connection with the Rs 48 crore fraud case. <\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 This is the statement given by the bank&#8217;s manager Ramesh Thapa to the police: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37054 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-1.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-1-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-1-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-1-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37055 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1275\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-2.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-2-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-2-1024x451.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ramesh-2-768x339.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"cXlNzSNMqa\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/37078\/\">Prabhu Bank&#8217;s Chief Manager Sunil Rana says he is not involved in credit chain<\/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\u2019s Chief Manager Sunil Rana says he is not involved in credit chain\u201d \u2014 Banking Sansar :: Nepal&amp;apos;s No. 1 Banking News portal\" src=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/37078\/embed\/#?secret=0sVomP8YEI#?secret=cXlNzSNMqa\" data-secret=\"cXlNzSNMqa\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"5STSHPmvXV\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/37073\/\">Angel Sharma, who works in the credit risk department of Prabhu Bank, also gave a statement, &#8216;I am not involved&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cAngel Sharma, who works in the credit risk department of Prabhu Bank, also gave a statement, \u2018I am not involved\u2019\u201d \u2014 Banking Sansar :: Nepal&amp;apos;s No. 1 Banking News portal\" src=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/37073\/embed\/#?secret=yhvsRK1msG#?secret=5STSHPmvXV\" data-secret=\"5STSHPmvXV\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lHUMUEACqC\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/37021\/\">Rajendra Shrestha, defendant in Prabhu Bank fraud case, says he signed his signature after receiving instructions over phone<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cRajendra Shrestha, defendant in Prabhu Bank fraud case, says he signed his signature after receiving instructions over phone\u201d \u2014 Banking Sansar :: Nepal&amp;apos;s No. 1 Banking News portal\" src=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/37021\/embed\/#?secret=FWFd98qx6r#?secret=lHUMUEACqC\" data-secret=\"lHUMUEACqC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"tGiTA31MtQ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/37006\/\">Prabhu Bank&#8217;s branch manager Santosh Gyawali said, &#8220;The loan approval process is done from the top level.&#8221;<\/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\u2019s branch manager Santosh Gyawali said, \u201cThe loan approval process is done from the top level.\u201d\u201d \u2014 Banking Sansar :: Nepal&amp;apos;s No. 1 Banking News portal\" src=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/37006\/embed\/#?secret=zydMi08GOr#?secret=tGiTA31MtQ\" data-secret=\"tGiTA31MtQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ES1uiGZSHh\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/36990\/\">Prabhu Bank Rs 48 crore fraud case: Prabhu Bank&#8217;s Chief Business Officer Rashmi Pant gives statement to the police<\/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 fraud case: Prabhu Bank\u2019s Chief Business Officer Rashmi Pant gives statement to the police\u201d \u2014 Banking Sansar :: Nepal&amp;apos;s No. 1 Banking News portal\" src=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/36990\/embed\/#?secret=5uHlTp74Jh#?secret=ES1uiGZSHh\" data-secret=\"ES1uiGZSHh\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qXXIN4RN6d\"><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=pGAaCB2fUa#?secret=qXXIN4RN6d\" data-secret=\"qXXIN4RN6d\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"eefrezIWip\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/36955\/\">Rs 480 crore fraud case: Case filed against 7 including 5 employees of Prabhu Bank<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cRs 480 crore fraud case: Case filed against 7 including 5 employees of Prabhu Bank\u201d \u2014 Banking Sansar :: Nepal&amp;apos;s No. 1 Banking News portal\" src=\"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/36955\/embed\/#?secret=QGeYWoK4YT#?secret=eefrezIWip\" data-secret=\"eefrezIWip\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The details of the event can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bocs\/\">Banking Sansar case study page <\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. Prabhu Bank&#8217;s manager Ramesh Thapa has stated that he was not involved in the loan disbursement of Rs 480 million in the name of Asian Village Resort Pvt Ltd. In the document related to the incident, Thapa has stated that he is currently working as a manager in the integrated services and implementation department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,123,126,129,147,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37085","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","category-sifaris-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/prabhu-2.jpg","publishedDateNp":"\u096e \u092d\u093e\u0926\u094d\u0930 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0969, \u0938\u094b\u092e\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u096c:\u0966\u096f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085","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=37085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37086,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37085\/revisions\/37086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/37081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}