TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan to visit her family.

The arrest of a gang of conmen in the capital who swindled Nepalis by promising to send them to the USA in the guise of Bhutanese refugees has led to the arrest of other high-profile people, including a government secretary and a security advisor to a former home minister.

Kathmandu December 15: Murder accused, 40 year old, Sant bahadur Tamang and Keshab Lama, 32 years old, have been detained by the police in relation to the murder of a 15 year old boy Lailu Lama of Tarkeshwore VDC ward no. 5.

MORTON, Aug 8: U.S. immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.

KATHMANDU, July 14: In different incidents,  police have arrested 12 individuals with cash worth Rs 172,550 on July 13.

MAHOTTARI, Aug 31: The police have arrested 28 people from various places of the district on the charge of electricity theft.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 19: Malaysia has detained seven people for suspected militant-linked activities, including a man who allegedly made death threats against the country’s king and prime minister, police said on Thursday.

LIMA, July 17: Peru arrested more than 50 people on Monday, the majority Colombian, as part of an operation against drug trafficking in a jungle border province where dissident former Marxist FARC rebels have reportedly taken refuge.

WASHINGTON, July 17: A 29-year-old gun-rights activist served as a covert Russian agent while living in Washington, gathering intelligence on American officials and political organizations and working to establish back-channel lines of communications for the Kremlin, federal prosecutors charged Monday.

KATHMANDU, June 24: In yet another round of arrests in connection with the infamous 33 kg gold smuggling case, the high level committee formed by the home ministry to investigate the case has arrested three individuals in the last two days.

DHANGADI, June 4: Police arrested two, including Kalu Rana, 23, the mastermind behind Rs 950,000 rupees loot from Gongabu, Kathmandu today, SSP Dhiraj Pratap Singh said.

KATHMANDU, April 13: An investigation committee set up by the Ministry of Home Affairs arrested Rajendra Shakya, owner of R.K jewellery over his alleged involvement to smuggle 33 kilogram of gold almost two months ago.

POKHARA, April 6: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority on Friday arrested two technicians of District Education Office on charge of receiving bribe from service seekers.

BARCELONA, March 25: Carles Puigdemont, the fugitive ex-leader of Catalonia and ardent separatist, was arrested Sunday by German police on an international warrant as he tried to enter the country from Denmark.

KATHMANDU, March 16: Thirteen persons of erstwhile Apex Development Bank -- promoters and employees -- have been arrested on the charge of banking offence to the tune of  Rs 1.6 billion. The bank, which merged with Nepal Credit and Commerce Bank Limited in January last year, had issued loans without informing the latter although it had already entered the merger process. The loans later turned into bad loans.

KATHMANDU, March 16: Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police has raided Nepal Credit and Commerce Bank (NCCB) and arrested some staffers for their alleged involvement in the past embezzlement scam.

SINGAPORE, Jan 9: Singapore police have arrested 17 men suspected of involvement in stealing oil from the largest Shell refinery in the world.

KATHMANDU, Dec 17: A sitting minister gets caught in camera asking for bribe from his prospective clients to do a work forbidden by the law. A senior government officer shows no shame in going to a middleman's home to collect rewards of his unlawful conduct.

DHARAN, Oct 23: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Monday caught three government officials of area administration office, Dharan, while taking bribe.

UDAYAPUR, Aug 21: In the last seven days, District Police Office (DPO), Udayapur has arrested three dozen youths on the charge of drug abuse. Of late, the number of drug users and peddlers has been growing in the district, according to the DPO.

CARACAS, August 6: Venezuelan ruling party chief Diosdado Cabello says Sunday that there was a “terrorist” attack at a military base controlled by troops loyal to the government and several people were arrested.

British police investigating the deadly attacks on London Bridge on Saturday said they had arrested three more suspects, as footage of the moment officers shot the assailants dead appeared online.

KATHMANDU, June 2: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has arrested Inland Revenue Department Director General Chudamani Sharma on the charge of  multiple involvements in corruption while fixing the tax liabilities of large industrial entities.

KATHMANDU, June 2: Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority on Thursday arrested Joint Secretary Chudamani Sharma, the director general of the Inland Revenue Department, on the charge of corruption while fixing taxes.

MANILA, May 12: Authorities in the Philippines have rescued four girls and arrested a mother and two other women for allegedly live streaming sexually exploitative videos of children to men paying by the minute to watch from the United States.

ROME, April 17:  Police in Greece have arrested three Pakistani nationals for holding hostage 16 migrants including a Nepali national without authorization to be in the country and demanding money for their release.

KATHMANDU, April 1:  Metropolitan Police Crime Division(MPCD)  have arrested six persons including one policeman identified as Ajaya Gurung on the charge of looting 64 tola gold from the place where golden ornaments are made on Sunday from Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, Feb 26: Nepal Police reiterated that Manoj Budha Magar aka Manoj Pun was the mastermind behind the murder of Durga Tiwari, who was the chairman of CPN-UML's sister wing Youth Association Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Feb 23: Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) arrested a junior officer of Land Revenue Office, Bhaktapur in the charge of taking bribes.

Twelve people have been arrested in southern India for not standing while the national anthem was being played at an international film festival, police said on Tuesday.

Indonesian police over the weekend arrested two more members of a militant group that had planned to bomb government buildings and the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta, having arrested the bombmaker earlier in the week, a police spokesman said on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 21: The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Sunday arrested Dinesh Shrestha, a sub-engineer at Kathmandu Metropolitan City-3 while taking bribe.

KATHMANDU, Aug 16: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) arrested a government employee Shambhu Prasad Chaudhary on a bribery charge.

KUWAIT CITY, Aug 14: Kuwait's Interior Ministry said Sunday its coast guard detained 10 Iranian "infiltrators" trying to sneak into the country illegally. An Iranian official, however, described them as fishermen whose detention was not related to any border violations.

KATHMANDU, July 26: The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police arrested a man who was absconding since the last 15 years after being accused of murder charge.

KATHMANDU, July 19: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Tuesday arrested a technical non-gazetted officer (Nayab Subba) at Transport Management Office, Bagmati with graft.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, June 28: Police in Bahrain say they have made a series of arrests over people "misusing social media" amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent in the tiny island kingdom.

KATHMANDU, June 20: Since Friday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CIB) of Nepal Police has arrested 36 doctors practicing at different hospitals and clinics from 10 districts on the charge of using fake academic certificates for medical studies.