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Victims of QNET scheme speak out

ཟླ་༤ 12, 2025 5 mins read
Victims of QNET scheme speak out

Punakha—An alarming number of Bhutanese citizens, many of them students, and workers in Australia, say they have lost their savings to a scheme marketed as a business opportunity with global e-commerce company QNET.

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