10 September, KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Home Affairs has ceased the suspicious 288 bank accounts related to international terrorists and criminal dons in Nepal.
Among them, 224 accounts are related to organisations and persons belonging to Al Qaeda groups and 64 are linked to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
By publishing the lists of ceased bank accounts and terrorists, the Home Ministry has directed the persons, institutions and financial organisations not to deal with financial transaction.
In course of implementing the Money Laundering Act by ratifying UN resolution, the government decided to cease the bank accounts of international mafias.
