Tibetan procuring Nepali passports
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KATHMANDU, JUL 28 - The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has put officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and Department of Immigration (DoI) under the scanner for issuing Nepali passports to Tibetan refugees.
The CIB move came after it rounded up two Tibetan refugees on Tuesday night from Tribhuvan International Airport who were bound for America and in possession of genuine Nepali passports. CIB officials said they received crucial clues about the larger network of passport racketeers involving top honchos of the government.
This is the second time in the last one week that the police has caught Tibetans bound for foreign countries on genuine Nepali passports issued by the ministry.
Earlier, the CIB caught three Tibetans who were planning to board a flight to Turkey with the help of Nepali passports. Preliminary investigation showed that scores of Tibetans have already made their way to foreign countries on Nepali passports.
CIB said Tuesday's arrested Tibetans--identified as Jayang Tenzin (15) and Tsering Lhamo (12)--had illegally obtained Nepali passports from MoFA with the help of fake documents.
The Tibetan brother-sister duo--heading to the US to settle there with their family living under refugee status--were found to have gotten American visas on their illegally obtained Nepali passports.
Police later caught another Tibetan Tsering Tashi Gurung (34), a suspected passport racketeer who was at the airport to see off the siblings, and whose false address has been mentioned as Kiwul VDC-2 of Sindhupalchowk district. Police seized crucial documents from the arrestees such as a recommendation letter issued by the Tibetan Refugee Welfare Office, which states that both are Tibetan refugees.
Posted on: 2011-07-28 11:59
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