{"id":35388,"date":"2026-08-07T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bankingsansar.com\/?p=35388"},"modified":"2026-08-07T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:10:06","slug":"wallets-are-becoming-a-hub-for-gold-smuggling-and-money-laundering-nepal-rastra-bank-has-shown-serious-fraud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/news\/35388","title":{"rendered":"Wallets are becoming a hub for gold smuggling and money laundering, Nepal Rastra Bank has shown serious fraud!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has revealed that gold smuggling and money laundering have been taking place through digital wallets. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Payment System Inspection Report, some digital payment platforms were misused to carry out gold smuggling and money laundering activities in the financial year 2024\/25. <\/p>\n<p>The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has said that there is a weakness in the process of opening an account without a face-to-face meeting through mobile and criminals have taken advantage of this weakness. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has taken action against more than a dozen wallet and payment service companies for violating the rules. Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has revoked the license of Paywell Nepal Pvt. Ltd. and Sajig Pay Payment Services on Asar 5, 2082. <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Prabhu Technology, Khalti Pvt. Ltd., iCash and Fintech Pvt. Ltd. have been warned on different dates. During the inspection conducted by the Rastra Bank, it is understood that the most common deficiency was seen in e-Sewa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. KATHMANDU: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has revealed that gold smuggling and money laundering have been taking place through digital wallets. According to the Payment System Inspection Report, some digital payment platforms were misused to carry out gold smuggling and money laundering activities in the financial year 2024\/25. The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-update-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/rastraaa-bankkk.jpg","publishedDateNp":"\u0968\u0968 \u0936\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0935\u0923 \u0968\u0966\u096e\u0969, \u0936\u0941\u0915\u094d\u0930\u092c\u093e\u0930 \u0967\u096b:\u096b\u096a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35389,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35388\/revisions\/35389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/35386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.bankingsansar.com\/bs_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}