Nepal Police Arrest Two Individuals in Kathmandu for Fraud Related to Banking Offenses and Foreign Employment Scams

Kathmandu. Nepal Police arrested two individuals on Tuesday from two separate locations for fraud related to foreign employment and banking offenses.

A team from the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office arrested one person from Chandragiri Municipality and the other from Kageshwori Manohara.

Office Information Officer Rameshwar Karki stated that Punyawati Joshi, 38, residing in Hasanatar, Chandragiri Municipality-7, originally from Bidur Municipality-3, Nuwakot, a fugitive accused in a banking offense case, was arrested today.

According to him, the Patan High Court, Lalitpur, on the decision date of Baisakh 10, 2080, had sentenced her to a fine of NPR five lakh and NPR 20 thousand to be deposited in the victim relief fund for that case.

She had been absconding after being sentenced to two days in prison, but she was arrested by the police team deployed from Teku on Tuesday from Hasanatar, Chandragiri Municipality-7 itself.

Similarly, Purna Bahadur Waiba, 52, residing in Kageshwori Manohara Municipality-6, originally from Mahabharat Rural Municipality-6, Kavre, was also arrested today by the police on charges of defrauding money by luring someone with the promise of sending them to Georgia with an attractive salary in foreign employment.

Information Officer Karki stated that he was also arrested today from Kageshwori Manohara Municipality-6 in Kathmandu. The office team arrested Purna Bahadur based on a victim's complaint alleging that he took NPR 650,000 from a victim promising to send him to Georgia and subsequently went out of contact.

He also mentioned that Joshi was sent to court on Tuesday for the execution of the sentence, and Waiba was sent to the Department of Foreign Employment, Tahachal, Kathmandu, for necessary investigation and action.