So far, 34 Nepali citizens have been found involved in the scam while 15 victims of the fraud are in contact with police.
Current Affairs :Nepal Police have uncovered a multi-million rupees online extortion including Nepalese, Indian, Nigerian and British nationals and captured three blamed.
Three Nepalese nationals were captured from focal Nepal after they were seen as utilizing different online life stages, for example, Viber, WhatsApp, Imo, Facebook to dupe individuals.
An uncommon examination group from the Metropolitan Police Crime Division, Teku captured the three Nepalese Ramesh Khadka, 52, Bisheshwor Prasad Tiwari, 37 and Sandeep Kalwar, 19 from Dolakha and Nawalparasi areas, police said.
As indicated by police, the three were engaged with extricating cash from individuals in the appearance of lotteries or getting packages.
They were additionally part of a bigger trick of hacking money related foundations and executing such assets through different financial balances. They would then channel the cash to India through different methods in the wake of holding a commission of 15 to 20 percent for themselves, police included.
Nigerian national Peter Herman Assenga, British national Smith Morris, and ten Indian nationals are known to have planned the misrepresentation and hacking plans, wherein they drove their Nepali operators to do the illicit exchanges for their benefit.
Examinations show that a sum of Rs 146,791,000 has been wrongfully executed, police said.
Up until now, 34 Nepali residents have been discovered engaged with the trick while 15 casualties of the extortion are in contact with police.
Police have started an examination concerning the issue to check whether banks utilized by the culprits have been hacked, police said.
Aditi Mehta 