Nepal arrests senior foreign ministry official over fake travel documents issued to Tibetans

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Tenzin Nyidon

DHARAMSHALA, Aug. 4: Nepal Police’s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) on Monday arrested Joint Secretary Pushpa Raj Bhattarai of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with a 17-year-old passport fraud case involving the alleged illegal issuance of travel documents to Tibetan refugees, according to The Kathmandu Post.

Bhattarai was taken into custody after the District Attorney’s Office at the Kathmandu District Court filed charges against him on July 27. Prosecutors allege that, while serving as a Section Officer in the Ministry’s Consular Section in 2009, he unlawfully issued travel documents to five Tibetan refugees without obtaining the m...

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