By Our Reporter

Following the circular issued by the US Secretary of State regarding the restriction on the US visa to those officials involved in facilitating illegal immigration, those officials and political leaders can be restricted from obtaining the US visa:

Former Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand, former Energy Minister Tope Bahadur Rayamajhi and former Home Secretary Tek Narayan Pandey were detained by the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police.

Accordingly, leader of the Bhutanese refugees, Teknath Rijal, Sandeep Rayamajhi, Indrajit Rai, an advisor to former home minister Ram Bahadur Thapa, a total of 30 people, including many politicians from across party linesand top bureaucrats, have been arrested on charges of fraud, organised crime, corruption, and a crime against the state.

It is said that one of the main reasons behind  the formation of the present NC-UML coalition government was the Bhutanese refugee scam.

After the arrest of Bechen Jha, the main designer of the fake refugee scam, a big jolt was experienced in the Nepali Congress. Those who were collecting money had given statements saying that Dr Arzu Rana Deuba, the present Foreign Minister was the main recipient of the commission amount, however, she was not grilled by the Police. Nevertheless, a reliable source informed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation of America has also conducted an investigation and prepared a list of those who were involved in the scam.