Two arrested for cheating foreign job aspirants of Rs 8 million

Kathmandu : Police have arrested two persons on the charge of cheating people of eight million rupees, promising them employment in Slovakia and the United States of America. 

Those arrested in this connection are Sandhya Lama Budhamagar of Puthauttarganga rural municipality-11 in Rukum West, currently living at Tarakeshwor municipality-10 of Kathmandu, and Udim Bahadur Pun of Mangala rural municipality-2 in Myagdi district, currently living at Nakhipot of Lalitpur metropolis, according to Spokesperson at the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, Superintendent of Police Rabindra Regmi. 

Regmi shared that Sandhya had fleeced the foreign job aspirants of Rs 200,000 giving false assurance of sending them to Slovakia while Udim had taken Rs 7.8 million promising to send them to USA.  The two were arrested based on the complaints.  Police would carry out further investigation against them and they were sent to the Department of Foreign Employment for necessary action, he added.