Over Rs 136 million cheated by promising to send US

A gang has cheated many people promising to send them to America in the guise of Bhutanese refugees.

The gang had fleeced 81 people of around Rs 136.3 million so far since 2077 BS, taking them into confidence that they would send them to America. Victims said they were charged up to Rs 2 million each.

According to the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, the gang allured the people who were in their contact as well using their relatives of sending them to US in the name of Bhutanese refugees.
Superintendent of Police at the Office, Somendra Singh Rathore, said alluring them, the gang members had made the victims to fill up the form to register their names as Bhutanese refugee. All of them who had filled up the form are Nepali citizens.

They used to cheat the people, citing they have made setting with high-officials of the Home Ministry and Bhutanese Refugee Committee.

The gang members had threatened of taking life after victims started asking them to return the money after knowing that they were cheated. After the threat of the gang members, the victims knock the door of police.

Bank accounts of different persons were found used in collecting money from the victims. Refugee identity card and travel document was found made using government logo in the name of Home Ministry in the name of 10 victims.

Police have started investigation arresting three persons in this connection. They are Sanu Bhandari, 50, of Mahalaxmi municipality-4 in Lalitpur, Keshav Dulal, 49, of Pathari Sanishchare municipality-10 and Tanka Kumar Gurung, 45, of Phidim in Panchthar.