World News | Former Nepal Home Minister Arrested for ‘Bhutanese Refugee Scam’

Kathmandu [Nepal]May 10 (ANI): Nepal’s former home minister and leader of Nepal’s parliament, Balkrishna Khand, was arrested at his residence on Wednesday on charges of allegedly trafficking Nepalese nationals as Bhutanese refugees abroad.

According to the police, Khand was arrested at his residence in Chabahil and detained at the Kathmandu police station on suspicion of involvement in the scam.

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Shyamlal Gyawali, Assistant Inspector General of Wali Police, told ANI by phone: “We detained him based on the statement of someone who was arrested earlier for sending a non-Bhutanese refugee to a third country as a Bhutanese refugee”.

Khand was arrested for participating in a scam in which many Nepalese nationals were defrauded of huge sums of money by promising to send them to the U.S. as Bhutanese refugees.

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Earlier, Nepal Police Deputy Inspector-General (AIG) Bigyan Raj Sharma had claimed that two people arrested by the police over the issue were released under political pressure during Khand’s tenure as home minister.

On Sunday, tapes between a member of the scam gang and a victim allegedly involved in the scam claimed that ARzu Rana Deuba, wife of NC President Sher Bahadur Deuba, and Manju, wife of former Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand, also received money from the scam, respectively. remuneration.

Another former deputy prime minister and opposition leader, CPN-UML-Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, was indicted in the case and is still at large. (Arnie)

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