District Court’s fake refugee verdict explained in 13 points

The Kathmandu District Court has classified the fake refugee scandal as a “combined offence”, a situation where a single incident of wrongdoing satisfies more than one criminal charge simultaneously. Since fraud, forgery of government documents, organised crime, and offences against the state were all proven, the court held that the case also constitutes a combined offence.

The Kathmandu District Court has found 15 people guilty, including two former ministers, in the case of sending Nepali citizens to the United States by falsely presenting them as refugees. Seven of the accused have been acquitted.