Mayor Dev Kumar Nepali of Baglung’s Dhorpatan Municipality, who is absconding, has come live on social media and said that he is ready to return the savers’ money.Mayor Nepali came live on social media on Tuesday and said that he wants to hand over the real estate in his name to savers. Mayor Nepali has requested to arrange the environment for handing over.

“To solve the problem of the savers of the cooperative, I want to transfer the real estate in the name of me and my wife to the different land office in the name of all the savers. I request law bodies, political parties, civil society journalists and various stakeholders to prepare the environment for handing over,” he said.

District Police Office Baglung Information Officer DSP Madan KC has said that the video is being investigated. We also just saw that video. We are investigating what the reality is,” he said.

The mayor, who is also the chairman of Image Savings and Credit Cooperative, has been absconding since May 5 after failing to pay the money of Nepali savers.
The director of the cooperative, Chitra Bahadur Bhandari, the manager Shakti Kisan and the employee Lalmati Roka have been ordered to be sent to prison for preliminary investigation.

Nepalis won the Mayor of Dhorpatan from CPN-UML in 2074 and 2079. The main office of Image Cooperative, of which he is the founder president, is in Baglung Bazar, while the branch offices are in Hatia and Burtibang Bazar in Pokhara and Balgung.