Nepal Police have busted an online gambling racket involving more than 3 billion rupees and arrested 24 people including ten Indian nationals. According to Superintendent of Police of Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, Kaji Kumar Acharya, a special team of police based on a tip of, conducted raids on two houses in Sanepa area of Lalitpur Metropolitan City on Saturday and arrested 10 Indian nationals and 14 Nepalese, who were found to be cheating people in the name of online game. This probably the biggest online gambling racket cracked down by Nepal Police in the recent period.
Ten Indians arrested in this connection include, Ajit Kumar, 22, Mukesh Mandal, 24, Manoj Kumar Bajaj, 44, Sumit Khatri, 28, Prabat Kumar Sah,34, Om Prakash Khatri, 32, Ravi Prakash Bishwokarma,28, Ravi Abhisekh Ojha, 23 and Shivam Pandey, 22, and Manoj Kumar 25. Most of those arrested are from Uttar Pradesh, said Acharya, who is also the Information officer of KVCI Office, talking to PTI on Sunday.
The 14 Nepalese arrested in this connection are Tanka Pachhai,36, Tej Bogati,25, Laxman Singh,23, Avinash G.C., 25, Hari Bahadur G.C.,34, Samir Khadka, 22, Bikram Pachhai, 24, Ashok G.C., 24, Bhishma Oli, 24, Hemanta Lohani, 32, Gopal Bista, 28, Sujan G.C.,24, Hemant Dhami,32, and Ravi Bista, 34.
They were running the illegal online betting on two rented houses located at Sanepa in Lalitpur.
They were conducting the online gambling with the help of online betting application by contacting people through Whatsapp and using Indian bank accounts for depositing and withdrawing money of the customers.
The preliminary investigation has revealed that have so far conducted transactions worth NRs. 3,047,356, 612, according to the police. The police have also seized 57 mobile phones of different models, 13 laptops, 34 ATM cards of different banks, 88 sim cards, 12 cheque books, 8 Adhar cards and 6 passports.