KATHMANDU, Aug 21 – The Department of Money Laundering Investigation (DoMLI) has launched a probe into cash reportedly discovered at the homes of Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and former minister Deepak Khadka, both of which were torched during the recent Gen Z protests.
Sources said a team led by Superintendent of Police Nawaratna Paudel from the DoMLI’s Harihar Bhawan office visited the residences on Sunday to collect evidence. The team has documented the findings and further investigation is underway.
During the protests, demonstrators vandalized and set fire to the residences of Deuba and Khadka. Subsequent videos that surfaced on social media showed large amounts of cash inside the burnt houses.
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At Deuba’s Budhanilkantha residence, partially burnt fragments of US dollars and Nepali currency notes in denominations of 1,000 and 500 were recovered. Some reports also claimed the discovery of a hidden tunnel allegedly used for storing money—something Deuba’s Personal Secretariat denied.
At Khadka’s house, videos showed bundles of cash scattered around and some amounts being recovered. Following these revelations, the DoMLI formally documented the condition of the destroyed homes and the locations where the money was found amid calls from various quarters that the case should be thoroughly investigated.
Deuba’s secretariat, however, issued a statement refuting the allegations. It denied the existence of a money storage tunnel, insisting the structure identified in the videos was in fact a water tank.
