Kathmandu, October 30
A man has been arrested on charges of defrauding people of money by promising to send them to Romania and Croatia for attractive foreign employment salaries.
The arrested man is 36-year-old Birendra Shahi, a native of Jumla who lives in Suryabinayak Municipality-5, Bhaktapur.
According to a complaint filed by victims, he took Rs 1.8 million from eight people on the promise of sending them to Romania and Croatia, and then went out of contact. Acting on the complaint, a police team deployed from the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office in Teku arrested him from Suryabinayak Municipality-5, Bhaktapur.
He has been sent to the Department of Foreign Employment in Tahachal, Kathmandu, for further investigation and action.
