Nepal-Portugal 'nexus' of human traffickers

They went to Nexus Consultancy in Pokhara's Hall Chowk three years ago to go to Poland. The director of the consultancy, Shivsamsar Shrestha, said that he would send them to Poland, but that effort was not successful . After some time, Shrestha said that he would send him there as he had a working visa from Portugal. Shrestha's partners were Ishwarbandhu Aryal and Tej Bahadur Roka of Syangja. Ale, who dreamed of going to Europe, agreed to go to Portugal after waiting for some time. I had to pay 17 lakh rupees to the consultancy along with ticket expenses. He sold his two tippers that were being used for transport and decided to go to Portugal.

Ramchandra Gautam of Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality-6 Dhital was among the group of 6 people who reached Portugal from Pokhara. After working in Dubai for two years, he returned to Nepal in 1976. The thought of moving to Europe led him to Nexus Consultancy three years ago . He also initially tried for Poland . Later the consultancy told to send to Portugal .

After arriving in Portugal with a fake visa and being detained.

Along with Ganesh and Ramchandra, Patrath Chiluwal, Sumit Gurung of Pokhara-10 Millantol, Khagraj Adhikari of Bhurjukhola of Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality and Netra Gurung of Parvat prepared to go to Portugal. According to Ganesh Ale, Shrestha, the director of the consultancy, said that a 'sponsor visa' had arrived from Portugal last February. Consultancy had also put a notice on social media to contact those who want to go for the said visa . Some of them reached the consultancy through close acquaintances after seeing the information. They paid two lakh rupees in advance .

Since the embassy of Portugal is not in Nepal, he has to go to India for visa application and because his people are in India, he will get the visa in 'setting', after the consultancy owner told him that he will get 15-15 thousand rupees with everyone, Tej Bahadur Roka went to India. He returned to Nepal last May with his passport stamped with a visa. The victim took him to the Labor Office, District Administration Office Kaski and showed his passport. "The staff of the district administration office also said that the visa is OK, and the head of the labor office in Pokhara also said that the visa is OK, so we took the work permit," said the visitor, "and then we paid the rest of the money."

They were handed tickets for June 14 at 2 am. 6 people reached Kathmandu on June 12th. After reaching Kathmandu, it was found that the ticket was also fake. By that time the consultancy owners Shivsamsar Shrestha, Ishwarbandhu Aryal and Tej Bahadur Roka had already entered India. Among them, Shrestha was in contact with the victim. He asked the victim to cut the ticket himself as the Indian agent stole his money. "All the employees there are positive, it's good, you believed that much money, now why don't you believe in one and a half lakh, we paid an additional 113 thousand 800 rupees and booked the ticket," he said. ;.'

After flying from Kathmandu, transited to Doha, Qatar. During the 4 and a half hour transit in Doha, Shrestha was having a WhatsApp conversation with Ale . The next day at 7 am local time, 6 people landed at the Lisbon airport . The immigration there checked and kept the passport and boarding pass . After looking at the passport, he was handed over to the police. The police took him and locked him in a room. "We were surprised when we were detained like that," Ale said. The police said they should return to Nepal. They said that they were surprised to see that the fake visa was not detected even at the Tribhuvan Airport and Doha Airport in Qatar. When contacting Shrestha who came to the

, he revealed his ignorance. "I feel like I fell off a cliff, I don't know how this happened," he said, quoting Shrestha's words, "Now let's take us out of Nepal, we will go through the legal process, and then he lost contact." Sent . Qatar's Doha transit was handed over by immigration to the police. Qatar police checked everything . For four hours, 3-3 people were locked in two rooms . Then the ship's staff was entrusted. On the morning of June 28, they landed at Tribhuvan airport and were sent to the immigration here by the ship's staff. "We were not even given passports, we came to Nepal with only travel documents," he said.

They also questioned the immigration staff as to why they did not detect the fake visa while passing through the airport in Nepal. The immigration staff replied that they do not know whether the visas of the countries that do not have an embassy or VFS in Nepal are genuine or fake. The employee said, "We will look at the labor permit". If the labor is accepted, we cannot stop it. On Sunday, they reached the foreign employment department with a complaint. The department cut a letter from the bank where the victim had deposited the money to withdraw their triplicates . On Sunday, the victim submitted an application to the district administration office Kaski. The office has written to Kaski Police to nab those involved in the fraud. Shrestha, the owner of

consultancy, called the victims on Wednesday and promised to return the amount gradually. He said that he did the work through Tejendra KC of Greenland Manpower in Kathmandu. Ashish Mall Thakuri from Portugal is the ID holder there. Tejendra KC has received a demand, he is going to sponsor the hotel, and I have sent him after he said that the work will be guaranteed. His wife again cut a check in the name of Tejendra KC.' He did not disclose the amount of money he gave. He claims that he relied on the Indian agent in the

visa process and the Indian also gave him the truth. Shrestha told the victim that the Indian agent was not even in touch with him. Hariraj Chiluwal of Pokhara Milantol went to Putlibazar in Syangja in search of Ishwarbandhu Aryal's house after losing 18 million rupees while sending his son to Portugal. Sumit Gurung's father, Padam Gurung, who returned from Portugal with his son, Ganesh Ale's wife, Kopila Ale, is calling the police and the administration demanding that the money be returned and those involved in the fraud be prosecuted. "This is pure human trafficking," said Chiluwal.