Ten arrested over fake helicopter rescue operations in Nepal

It involves years of fraud in which insurance companies have been tricked into paying out the equivalent of at least SEK 190 million.

Guides are alleged to have poisoned tourists with baking soda to create fake emergencies. The same call is also said to have been used in several insurance claims.

There are also suspicions that flights of tourists were reported as medical transports, while several hospitals involved in the case inflated bills and falsified prescriptions to obtain insurance reimbursements.

A similar case was investigated in Nepal in 2018 involving 15 companies, but it did not lead to prosecution.