Nepal Police arrested five people this week on charges of frauding victims by falsely promising them to send them abroad for foreign employment.
Among the five were Manisha, Thakur Bahadur, Khop Bahadur, Dipendra, and Sita.
Manisha and Thakur Bahadur took Rs 12 lakh from one victim by promising to send them to the United Kingdom. Khop Bahadur took Rs 2 lakh from a victim promising passage to Romania. Dipendra collected Rs 3.5 lakh from a victim promising New Zealand. And Sita took Rs 3 lakh from a victim promising Portugal. After receiving the money, all of them disappeared, a very infamous pattern related to such cases.
Acting on the victims' complaints, police from the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office in Teku arrested Manisha and Thakur Bahadur from Kathmandu Metropolitan City-9 on Saturday, Khop Bahadur from Tarkeshwar Municipality-16 on Sunday, and Dipendra and Sita from Kathmandu Metropolitan City-12 on Monday.
This is at least the third near identical fraud case broken up by police in 2026 alone, highlighting how persistent foreign employment scams remain despite repeated arrests.
