Kathmandu, Oct. 15 -- Nepal's Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) has arrested four health-service operators, including Kailash Khadka, president of the Nepal Health Professionals Federation, accusing them of fraud in medical examinations required for migrant workers heading to Malaysia. Police also arrested Rabindra KC, Pravin Tiwari and Ram Pukar Tiwari.

The arrests, made on Wednesday evening in Kathmandu and Lalitpur, came as a dispute over Malaysia's selection of recruitment agencies continues to strain labour ties between the two countries.

According to a statement issued by Senior Superintendent of Police Anupam Shumsher Rana of the CIB, the operators were arrested on charges of fraud and offences under the Organised Crime Preventi...