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Colleges in the UAE with no accreditation, a promise of "credit transfer" to France and Australia, fifteen consultancy directors arrested in two sweeps: Nepal's 2026 Gulf study scam
Nepal's crackdown on study-abroad consultancies, recorded elsewhere on this site through the raid on 95 offices in May 2026, began with a narrower complaint: students sent to the United Arab Emirates to colleges that were not colleges.
According to the Kathmandu Post, 32 students placed in 11 unrecognised institutions in the UAE lodged complaints against 13 consultancies with the education ministry in late 2025 and January 2026, saying they had been sent to training institutes presented as colleges and universities affiliated to European universities. On 15 January 2026 police arrested six consultancy owners and managers. In July 2026, Nepal News, Online Khabar and the Asia News Network reported that the Central Investigation Bureau had arrested nine more consultancy directors, on warrants from the Kathmandu District Court under the National Penal Code 2017, for placing students in UAE institutions that lacked approval from the Emirates' Commission for Academic Accreditation. The students, the CIB said, had been told they could later transfer their credits to universities in France or Australia. The ministry has since issued no-objection certificates only for CAA-accredited institutions.
The UAE case is not about medicine, and it is on this site because the structure is identical to the medical-seat frauds it sits beside. An institution that is real as a business and non-existent as a qualification; a promise about a future step, the credit transfer, that the seller cannot deliver; and a consultancy that is paid at the start. Dubai's unlicensed "universities" selling dentistry degrees, recorded in an earlier case, are the medical version of the same thing.
The check is also identical. The UAE publishes its list of accredited institutions, as every medical regulator publishes its list of recognised schools. A consultancy that cannot show you the institution on the regulator's list is selling you the promise, and the promise is the product.
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