{"id":27702,"date":"2026-10-18T08:31:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=27702"},"modified":"2026-10-18T08:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:46:53","slug":"former-investment-board-ceo-sushil-bhatta-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=27702","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Former Investment Board CEO Sushil Bhatta Arrested<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon Media News Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police have arrested former Investment Board Nepal Chief Executive Officer Sushil Bhatta on suspicion of money laundering, according to Kantipur.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Superintendent of Police Dilip Ghimire of the Kathmandu District Police Range confirmed the arrest and said an investigation had begun.<\/p>\n<p>Kantipur reported that investigators were examining Bhatt\u2019s communications with Inam Sapkota in connection with a broader inquiry involving former chief justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana and businessman Deepak Bhatta. 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Senior Superintendent of Police Dilip Ghimire of the Kathmandu District Police Range confirmed the arrest and said an investigation had begun. Kantipur reported that investigators were examining Bhatt\u2019s communications with Inam &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Investment Board CEO Sushil Bhatta Arrested - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police have arrested former Investment Board Nepal Chief Executive Officer Sushil Bhatta on suspicion of money laundering.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=27702\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Investment Board CEO Sushil Bhatta Arrested - 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