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Officials Sentenced in Fake Refugee Scam; Mayor Vows Clean-up

7/15/2026

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Bal Krishna Khand and Top Bahadur Rayamajhi received two- and four-year sentences respectively, with Khand on bail and Rayamajhi in custody.
Fourteen others, among them a former senior Home Ministry bureaucrat and a former Bhutanese refugee leader, received up to four years.
Balendra Shah, the newly elected Gen Z leader, vowed to root out corruption tied to the scheme that forged documents to send Nepali nationals abroad as fake Bhutanese refugees.

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Bal Krishna Khand and Top Bahadur Rayamajhi received two- and four-year sentences respectively, with Khand on bail and Rayamajhi in custody.
Fourteen others, among them a former senior Home Ministry bureaucrat and a former Bhutanese refugee leader, received up to four years.
Balendra Shah, the newly elected Gen Z leader, vowed to root out corruption tied to the scheme that forged documents to send Nepali nationals abroad as fake Bhutanese refugees.