Nepal Police’s Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) has arrested four people, including 42-year-old Kailash Khadka, over allegations that Nepali workers undergoing health tests for employment in Malaysia were charged fees beyond the government-set amount. Investigators say the additional money was collected under the name of a “bio-medical service charge.” Khadka is a resident of Kageshwari Manohara Municipality-1 in Kathmandu.
Alleged extra charges on health tests
The case concerns health examinations required of Nepali workers seeking employment in Malaysia. According to the allegations, workers were asked to pay an additional charge on top of the fee set by the government. The extra amount was described as a “bio-medical service charge.”
The CIB has arrested four people in connection with the alleged collection of these additional fees. Khadka is the only person identified in the information provided about the arrests. The allegations relate to the fees charged to workers, rather than to the requirement for health testing itself.
CIB investigation
The arrests were made by the Nepal Police’s Central Investigation Bureau, which is investigating the alleged collection of extra money from workers going through the health-test process for Malaysia-bound employment. The case has been described as involving illegal fee collection.
The government-set fee is central to the allegation: workers were allegedly charged more than that amount, with the additional sum collected under the stated service-charge label. The available information does not specify the amount of the government-set fee, how much extra workers were allegedly asked to pay, or how many workers may have been affected.
What is known about the case
The information released about the arrests identifies the alleged practice and the purpose for which the workers were being tested, but does not provide further details about the other three people arrested. It also does not state when or where the arrests took place, or provide responses from the accused.
The allegations have not, on the information available, been established as findings of a court. The CIB’s arrests concern claims that extra fees were collected from Nepali workers seeking employment in Malaysia, beyond the government-set health-test charge. Khadka, 42, is from Kageshwari Manohara Municipality-1 in Kathmandu.
