Man Arrested for Allegedly Defrauding Women by Posing as US Army Personnel on Social Media

Kathmandu. Police have arrested a young man on charges of defrauding women by luring them through social media, claiming to be serving in the US Army. The arrested individual is 34-year-old Bheshraj Wagle, a resident of Biruwa Rural Municipality-2, Syangja.The accused targeted women, initiating contact via TikTok and then moving to WhatsApp, to perpetrate fraud, SP Manohar Bhatta of the Valley Crime Investigation Office told Ratopati. He would first establish acquaintance through TikTok and then communicate with women via WhatsApp using foreign numbers to lure them.During conversations, he would give false assurances, claiming to be a US Army soldier currently...