The Department of Money Laundering Investigation has filed a case against three people, including Chinese nationals, demanding seizure of Rs13 million for money laundering and trying to transfer the sum to China illegally through Tatopani customs. The sum was seized by Metropolitan Police Crime Division and submitted to the department on July 31, 2014 for investigation.

In a statement released on Monday, the department has said the investigation found that the money belongs to a Chinese national identified as Li Xiaofeng, a resident of Seoyang of China and was residing at Thamel. The sum was earned through illegal sources, the statement read.

Li Xiaofeng and his wife were arrested by the Crime Division while sending the illegally earned money to China and the document was handed over to the department for further investigation around five years ago. They were released on bail by the Revenue Investigation Department.