As the US is also involved, it is difficult to dismiss refugee scam

Surya Nath Upadhyay, former chief commissioner of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), shares some insights on the fake Bhutanese refugee scam.

The public outrage sparked by the news of creation of fake Bhutanese refugees to send them to the United States is growing. There are daily protests on the streets. The Parliament is in uproar. Top political leaders seem to be scrambling to try to contain the scam’s fallout. The Post’s Prithvi Man Shrestha talked to Surya Nath Upadhyay, former chief commissioner of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), the constitutional anti-graft watchdog, for some insights in these developments.