A Nepali youth has been arrested in the US on charges of operating a global child sexual exploitation network. Prashan Nepal, a 20-year-old resident of North Carolina, was arrested last week on charges of running a global child sexual exploitation network as an online network.
A lawsuit has been filed against him in the United States District Court, District of Columbia, for the most heinous online child exploitation enterprise in the United States. The case was transferred from North Carolina to Washington, DC. 21-year-old Leonidas Varagianinis has also been arrested along with
Nepal. It has not been disclosed which country Waragiasin is a citizen of. According to the Department of Justice, if their charges are proven, they can be imprisoned for life.
Nepal and Waragianis have been accused of targeting vulnerable children online by inciting and threatening them to produce obscene materials and exploiting 8 minors through those materials. Edward R. Martin, Jr., the US attorney for the District of Columbia, told the American media that the allegations in the case are not only disturbing, but also a nightmare for every parent. It is mentioned in the indictment that the network known as
'764' kept obscene materials from the end of 2020 to the beginning of 2025 and that Nepal led a main subgroup within 764. During the
investigation, it was found that encrypted messaging apps were used to operate the network, they instructed and even participated in the production and distribution of child sexual abuse materials, the police claim. According to local time, on Tuesday of this week, Nepal admitted in court that the 764 network was created by its team and is still controlling the network. Nepal's mother, father, a sister and a younger brother also participated in the court.
On March 3, two Nepali students were arrested on rape charges. Those arrested are 19-year-old Sujan Tamang and 20-year-old Deepak Fuyal. Tamang and Phuyal, both students at St. Cloud State University in the state of Minnesota, were accused of raping a female student on the night of November 1, 2024, in a university dormitory room on First Avenue South in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
