Chinese man held for operating electronics business illegally

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, July 18: A Chinese national has been apprehended from Kathmandu for allegedly running an illegal electronics production and distribution operation without official permits or tax documentation. Acting on a tip-off, a special police team deployed from the concerned office raided a five-storey concrete building located at Panchamukhi Chok, Purano Sinamangal of Kathmandu Metropolitan City-32, on July 15.  

According to a press statement issued by the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office on Thursday, during a raid, police discovered a Chinese citizen, Yu Wang, 38, from Shandong, China, had been renting the building and operating an unauthorised electronics business without registering it with any government office or institution. 

According to Superintendent of Police (SP) Kaji Kumar Acharya of the Crime Investigation Office, police found a stockpile of raw materials and finished goods including parts and batteries of various branded laptops, CC cameras, and HD cameras. The entire operation was being run without valid invoices or tax clearance, amounting to revenue evasion, claimed SP Acharya. 

The total value of the illegally stored and distributed goods is estimated at Rs. 21.9 million, said police.  Following the seizure of the contraband items, Yu was taken into custody and handed over to the Department of Revenue Investigation, Harihar Bhawan, Lalitpur, for further investigation and necessary legal action.

During the raid, police seized some of the items that include - laptop batteries of various models that were yet to be completed, laptop batteries of different companies in a ready-to-use state, battery parts of brands such as HP, Dell, Acer, Asus, Lenovo, and Lilion, Battery covers, various types of small batteries, CCTV cameras and related equipment of different brands, screwdriver sets used for repairing electronic devices, Chinese fiber blankets of various sizes, cover materials used in batteries, antennas for Wi-Fi routers and smart watches.