One arrested scamming people in name of taking them to Europe

By TRN Online, Kathmandu, Feb.1: The Nepal Police has arrested a person for scamming more than 600 people by saying that he would take them to European countries, Malta, Poland, Canada, and Croatia. 

The criminal was made public in a Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office press release. The arrested has been identified as 32-year-old Sujan Tamang of Nallu Rural Municipality-5, Lalitpur, currently changed as Konjyosom Rural Municipality-4, and currently living in Imadol. 

Anil Ghimire, Deputy Superintendent of Police said that Tamang was running Euro Wings Consultancy of Kathmandu Metropolitan City-16, by taking a fake identity as Bikash Waiba, and has scammed more than 600 people in the name of taking them to Europe. 

After getting a charge sheet in a foreign employment offense case, he was at large. It has been revealed that the defendant had embellished Rs 1.8 million in a scam of taking to Canada, Rs 8 lakh to Malta, Rs 7 lakh to Poland, Rs 650,000 to Croatia.  He had taken Rs 50,000 to Rs 5 lakh for netizens. 

He had used the Rs 40 million to pay the personal loan, has a 50 per cent share in Rapti Manpower, Bashundhara, bought Creta of Hyundai, Rs 1.5 million deposited in his brother’s account, paid the Rs 1.5 million loan taken from Hydropower Cooperatives Organization, bought gold bracelet of Rs 5 lakh