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Rayamajhi, who is in custody, and Khand, who is out on bail, were not available for comment. In the past they have denied any involvement in the scam.<br \/>Dharma Raj Regmi, a lawyer for Rayamajhi, said his client was \u201cnever involved in policy making for the refugees\u201d and that he would appeal against the verdict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in Nepal jailed two former government ministers after they were found guilty of forging documents to enable Nepali nationals to be resettled in the U.S.as Bhutanese refugees, a court document and lawyers said on Wednesday.The district court in Kathmandu jailed former Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi to four years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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