Chinese national arrested in multi-million rupees crypto currency scam in Nepal

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A Chinese nationalist has been arrested successful transportation with his alleged engagement successful cheating radical done operating a multi-million rupees crypto currency scam, constabulary said connected Friday (April 3, 2026).

A squad of constabulary arrested Zhu Yi-eng, 35, from the capital's Thamel country connected Thursday (April 2, 2026), on with transaction details of cryptocurrency worthy Nepalese rupees (NRs) 179.97 million, said Pavan Kumar Bhattarai, spokesperson astatine Kathmandu District Police Circle.

The constabulary besides recovered from him 3 mobile sets and assorted documents, including papers utilized to transportation retired amerciable transactions.

During preliminary investigation, it was recovered that Zhu was progressive successful cheating section Nepalese by contacting them done societal media platforms and winning their assurance by showing assorted charismatic offers.

The constabulary person taken the Chinese nationalist into 5 days judicial remand with the support from Kathmandu District Court to transportation retired further probe into the matter.

Published - April 03, 2026 06:16 p.m. IST

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