KATHMANDU: Shankarlal Agrawal, Chairman of Shankar Group, has been arrested. According to sources, he was taken into custody by police on Friday at the request of the Department of Money Laundering Investigation for probing a money laundering-related offense.

Sources said Agrawal was detained on Friday afternoon. He was questioned by the Department of Money Laundering Investigation from 4 PM and is currently being held in custody at the District Police Range, Lalitpur.

The CIB arrested him on Friday evening.