"Manpower swindles Rs 300 million, operator jailed for fraud", 26 February 2021

Bheri Overseas Manpower has been found to have swindled youths out of Rs 300 million, promising them lucrative jobs abroad. The manpower has run a fraudulent business by luring more than 150 people claiming to send them to various European countries and Afghanistan.

According to Kumar Prasad Dahal, director general of the Department of Foreign Employment, so far 150 people have filed petitions demanding refund of the amount swindled by the manpower. “On the basis of the complaint, about Rs 300 million has to be recovered from the manpower,” he said.

Most of the victims are former employees of Nepal Army, Armed Police Force and Nepal Police. The manpower had demanded Rs 200,000 to Rs 1.5 million from each individual saying that they would be sent to various European countries including Portugal, Romania and Afghanistan...

Manpower operator Rameshwor Singh was arrested on charges of foreign employment fraud, while extorting large sums of money in the name of sending people to various European countries and Afghanistan...