Following complaints by victimized girls, the CIB under "operation eagle" had intensified search for the racketeers. It had arrested seven persons involved in girls trafficking in March and one in April.
The two arrested on Friday are Surendra Bahadur Basnet, 32, of Pipara Simara of Bara district and Sunil Magar, 20, aka Jire of Dharampur, Jhapa. Tipped off by a special source, Basnet was arrested from Gadhimai Municipality and Magar from Narsingh chowk of Thamel in Kathmandu.According to SP Kiran Bajracharya of CIB, Basnet, who was earlier held for drug smuggling, trafficked the girls to Africa and Gulf countries in connivance with Indian and Nepali agents.
The police have revealed that the girls were selected from dance bars and dance training centers in Kathmandu on the basis of good physique and dance skills, among others. They were then lured with the promise of more than Rs 100,000 in monthly salary.
The girls were then approved by the respective agents in various countries -- Kenya, Tanzania, UAE, Malaysia and Bahrain --and then trafficked to those countries via Delhi and Mumbai on tourist visas.
Rajendra Subedi Khatri, 34, of Imadol-6, Lalitpur, who has identified as a major kingpin behind the racket, is currently serving term at Central Jail along with seven others.
Some of the arrested had invested in dance bars in Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania and Dubai as well. However, few agents from India have yet to be arrested.
Meanwhile, CIB has also dragged the attention of the Department of Money Laundering Investigation as the wives and relatives of those recently arrested were found receiving huge amounts of money from unknown sources in Kenya and Tanzania.
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