The Bhutanese refugees scam was a fraud scheme that duped over 800 people out of millions of rupees by giving them fictitious documents in the name of asylum seekers from Bhutan who were qualified for resettlement in other countries.[1] A political-bureaucratic network and intermediaries were involved in this complex plan.[2][3] The scandal has made the pervasive corruption in Nepal's political and administrative structures public. Tek Narayan Pandey, a former home secretary, has been detained on allegations of accepting payments totaling millions of rupees.[4][5]