Nepal, July 18 -- After months of recommendations and request from the Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police to ban the malicious Telegram messaging app, the Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), on Friday, directed all telecom service providers to immediately block access to the Telegram app.

The NTA issued the directive through a notice published on its website.

This move follows concerns raised by security agencies that Telegram has increasingly been used for money laundering activities in recent times. According to the spokesperson for the Cyber Bureau, Superintendent of Police (SP) Dipak Raj Awasthi, the use of the app is rampant in financial frauds.

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