Kathmandu: The police have arrested and made public two individuals on charges of defrauding Rs 5.8 million under the pretext of sending people to the UK and Qatar for foreign employment.
According to National News Agency Nepal, thirty-one-year-old Nabina Dahal Ghimire from Baiteshwor Rural Municipality-3, Dolakha, and forty-three-year-old Lachhuman Sah Teli from Kaudena Municipality-4, Siraha, have been taken into custody. They were apprehended based on the complaints of victims who reported that the accused had taken large sums of money from them with false promises of overseas employment opportunities.
Superintendent of Police Kaji Kumar Acharya, the information officer at the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Division, stated that Nabina had collected Rs 5.2 million from two individuals under the guise of sending them to the UK, while Lachhuman had taken Rs 600,000 from three individuals claiming to facilitate their employment in Qatar.
The detained individuals have been transferred to the Foreign Employment Department in Tahachal for further investigation and necessary legal action.