Bhutanese Refugee Scam: Ex-DPM Rayamajhi and Ex-Home Minister Khand termed guilty

Kathmandu, July 8

Former Deputy Prime Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, former Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand and former Home Secretary Tek Narayan Pandey have been found guilty along with 20 others in the fake Bhutanese refugee scam. The Kathmandu District Court has convicted a total of 23 people with varied degrees of offences in sending non-Bhutanese people to the US and other countries for third-country settlement by verifying them as Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal.