Nabil Bank chairman Shrestha blacklisted

KATHMANDU, SEP 13 -

Nabil Bank Chairman Satyendra Pyara Shrestha has been blacklisted by the Credit Information Bureau (CIB) for failing to pay loans taken from Nepal Bangladesh Bank (NBB).  

The CIB action follows the request from the NBB after it failed to recover the loan amount from Shrestha and other business partners of Amie Pharmaceuticals.

Shrestha, a former governor of the Nepal Rastra Bank, will no more be chairman of the Nabil Bank as per the Bank and Financial Institution Act, which states that the blacklisted loanee will be disqualified from being board member any bank and financial institutions. Other blacklisted individuals are Bhibha Kumari Mishra, Indrani Mukharjee and Uttam Kumar Mukharjee.

NBB Chief Executive Officer Gyanendra Prasad Dhungana said that the bank had recommended for blacklisting last week after the loans could not be recovered even after issuing 35-day notice for payment. “The pharmaceutical company has not paid the interest since one year,” he said.  The company has remained closed for more than a year. The bank had provided the loan of Rs 40 million to the company four years ago. Dhungana, however, claimed that his bank had got adequate collateral to recover the loan amount through auction. Likewise, NCC Bank also has loans to recover from the company. “We have to recover around Rs 10 million that we had provided as working capital to the company,” said Amrit Charan Shrestha, CEO of NCC Bank. The NCC had issued 35-day public notice to Shrestha and his partners for payment of the loans last week.

Source: The Kathmandu Post