<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Nepal Police investigation report on the Bhutanese refugee scam recommends the prosecution of 33 individuals including senior political leaders of different political parties accused in the scam.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The police recommended the attorney's office to implicate those involved in the scam on three types of charges fraud, organised crime and treason both police and District Attorney Office Kathmandu confirmed.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Of the accused, 16 including former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and former home minister Bal Krishna Khand have been arrested while 17 are on the run. They were involved in collecting millions of rupees from hundreds of people by promising to send them to the US as Bhutanese refugees. Kathmandu District Court has extended the judicial custody of all 16 accused in the Bhutanese refugees' scam by two more days.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">The police have determined the total amount involved in the offence at around Rs. 270 million.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The court granted custody allowing government attorneys to prepare the chargesheet against 33 people accused of involvement in the scam, where hundreds of Nepalis were scammed with the promise they would be sent to foreign countries like the US and Canada. Meanwhile, genuine Bhutanese refugees who had found refuge in the camps of eastern Nepal have staged a peaceful demonstration for the rehabilitation of those Bhutanese refugees left out in the Third Country Refugee Settlement Programme.</span></p>