Kathmandu, 1 July: It has been found that an organized gang has duped more than two million rupees each from  1,017  Nepali youths to send them to the United as  Bhutanese refugee by providing refugee identity cards. The gang had submitted the details of 1,017 non-refugee youths to the Ministry of Home Affairs. A senior Home Ministry official said that the gang had prepared the list with the connivance of political party leaders, administrators and middlemen. However, the list of non-refugee Nepali youth has not been made public. The gang has prepared the list by raising a minimum of Rs 2 million each with a 'guarantee' to take the youth as refugees to the United States. Sources said that the gang was manipulating to get the identity cards even after the investigation was underway after a complaint was lodged that the gang had taken more than Rs 100 million from hundreds of youths in the ploy of sending refugees to the United States. The Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, which is investigating the scam, has not arrested any member of the gang so far. Police arrested two persons on June 14 on suspicion of being involved in the ploy of taking Nepali youths as refugees to the United States. According to ekantipur.com, police have been searching for Sandesh Sharma, one of the  members of the ganc since two weeks. The youths who came in contact with Kantipur have alleged the involvement of  the then Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa's security adviser Indrajit Rai and former minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi in the scam. People's News Monitoring Service