Police have stepped up vigil on suspicious educational consultancies and language institutes in the Kathmandu Valley. The move comes after police found some of them operating organised forgery rackets in the name of providing consultancy services to students aspiring to study abroad.

Recently, police raided nine educational consultancies and arrested 18 people with fake documents that they had prepared with an intent to sell to unqualified candidates, who wanted to go abroad.

The institutes at fault included Deepdarshan Educational Consultancy (Gongabu), Kimino Japanese Language School, Option Educational Consultancy Pvt Ltd, Neparu Institute (Putalisadak), Mynichi Japanese Language School, Tokyo Education Foundation and United Study Centre Pvt Ltd (Bag Bazaar), Euro Nepal Educational Consultancy (Maitidevi), Ebisu Education Institute (Kalanki) and Bhaktapur Japanese Language Institute (Bhaktapur).

The Central Investigation Bureau of the Nepal Police had arrested ‘all proprietors’ of the above-mentioned consultancies and institutes save United Study Centre Pvt Ltd, Tokyo Education Foundation, Neparu Institute and Ebisu Education Institute. Investigators informed that police were keeping a close tab on activities and transactions of suspicious consultancies and institutes.

“Some racketeers have been operating a forgery ring to make a fast buck by producing fake documents and make them available to ineligible candidates. They collect Rs 1.5 million per person in the name of sending them abroad,” he explained. Rackets usually collect hefty cash from fake students willing to go to Japan via Singapore. The CIB has launched a thorough investigation into suspicious educational consultancies and language institutes since the May 15 arrest of Yam Bahadur Gurung (29) of Kaski with fake documents at Tribhuvan International Airport. It made the arrest while Gurung was trying to fly to Japan.

source: the himalayan times,6 june 2013