Kathmandu, Feb. 10 -- Nepal Police's Cyber Bureau is struggling to trace the masterminds of a sophisticated email scam that involved the impersonation of senior police officials to extort money from victims.

Despite the arrest of two suspects last week, bureau officials say identifying the orchestrators of the scheme remains a challenge.

According to Superintendent of Police Deepak Raj Awasthi, the spokesperson for the Cyber Bureau, the arrested individuals-Manish Kumar Mehta and Indrajit Yadav, both from Sunsari-were not the primary architects of the scam but acted as 'money mules'.

Money mules are individuals recruited to withdraw and transfer illicit funds on behalf of the main criminals.

"This type of fraud is often part of a larg...