Stories

Migrant worker import quota won via fake deals, then traded for millions

Ramu Sapkota & S Vinothaa 

Startling rag to riches tale of a clerk, his nexus with politicians

How did clerk Bhimkanta Bhandari, who started his own business by landing a government contract during the Covid-19 pandemic, become a billionaire? An investigation into his political connections and surprising business expansion seeks to find answers.

Ramu Sapkota |CIJ, Nepal

Gulmi residents head to Finland in droves

Finland has become an attractive destination for employment and studies for Nepalis three decades after the first Nepali restaurant opened its doors in the Nordic country. However, people who spend a large amount of money in the hope of landing a well-paying job without knowing the language and acquiring necessary skills face exploitation.

Ramu Sapkota |CIJ, Nepal

Sixteen Nepalis have illegally invested in offshore companies in overseas tax havens

An international investigation has revealed how many Nepali business persons and companies have used tax havens to stash wealth and avoid taxes.

Krishna Acharya, Ramu Sapkota | CIJ, Nepal

The FinCEN Files: Nepali banks and companies transact billions of rupees through dubious channels

Nineteen establishments were found to have traded Rs38.84 billion in 11 years. 

Krishna Acharya, Ramu Sapkota and Shiva Gaunle: Center for Investigative Journalism- Nepal

Nepal quarantines hotspots for disease

Western Nepal may be seeing spike in COVID-19 as returnees from India head home without tests

Ramu Sapkota: Centre For Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Fishery pond replaces public land

In what can be described as a blatant encroachment of public land, a total of 511 ropani of such land on the margins of Sunkoshi river in Sindhuli district have been converted into fishery farming and that too at the initiation of the Chief Minister of Province 3, Dor Mani Poudel.

Ramu Sapkota and Bikram Rai: Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal 

Moving backward: Nepal govt. fails to nab wrongdoers

Malaysia’s anti-graft agency, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, has arrested former home minister, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, in connection with an investigation into suspected misappropriation of funds. Nepal government, however, is least bothered.

Ramu Sapkota, Kathmandu with Alyaa Alhadjri, Kuala Lumpur : Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

State mechanism abets Rs 5 billion loot from poor Nepalis

How was Rs 5 billion collected from Malaysia-bound Nepali workers in the involvement of government agencies? Revelation of the strange collaboration of the government agencies of Nepal and Malaysia to fleece poor Nepalis.

-Ramu Sapkota in Kathmandu and Alyaa Alhadjri in Malaysia : Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

Chronic disease:Nepal’s medical education in the grip of ‘maafias’

The nexus between corrupt bureaucrats and officials at medical council and universities, colluding with the Supreme Court judges, lawmakers and private colleges, have infected Nepal’s medical education system.

RAMU SAPKOTA – Centre for Investigative Journalism

KILLING CLINICS : Where patients are prescribed death

Pitiable public health service has left people at the mercy of costly and careless treatment of profit hungry private hospitals and clinics. What dangers do that pose and how is the issue being tackled? Can we trust our medical system, or are the very places that are supposed to save us a threat to our lives?

-RAMU SAPKOTA: CIJ

मलेशियाबाट श्रमिकको फर्जी माग : करोडौंको सौदाबाजी 

मलेशियामा श्रमिक आयातका लागि फर्जी सम्झौता गरेका केही कम्पनीले त्यसबाट प्राप्त कोटा करोडौंमा बिक्री गरी सयौं नेपाली युवालाई अलपत्र पारेका छन्। दुवै देशका सरकारी निकायको समेत संलग्नता देखिने यो त्रासद जालसाजीबारे विस्तृत खोज।

रामु सापकोटा/खोज पत्रकारिता केन्द्र र एस भिनोथा/मलेशियाकिनी

Crusher ‘lords’ don’t get crushed

A story of Nawalparasi crusher dons who transferred two LDOs in seven months

-Kalpana Bhattarai, Centre for Investigative Journalism-Nepal

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अस्पताल र चिकित्सकका शिकार

रामु सापकोटा (खोज पत्रकारिता केन्द्र )- नेपालका अस्पताल र चिकित्सकहरुका लागि विरामीहरुको शरीर नै प्रयोगशाला हुँदै आएको छ । नेपाल मेडिकल काउन्सिल मुक भएकोले अस्पतालमा मर्ने मार्ने खेल नियमित रुपमा चलिरहेको छ ।  प्रकाशित समाचारको लागि तलको लिंकमा क्लिक गर्नुहोला ।   http://swasthyakhabar.com/2014/05/10889.html [PDF को लागि] अक्सिजन एक्सिडेन्टललितपुर वडा. न.९ सप्तखेलका दिकेश बज्राचार्यको ४ वर्षको उमेरमै […]