Nepal has frozen bank accounts of over a dozen individuals suspected of links with Maoist rebels in a financial clampdown on guerrillas battling to topple the constitutional monarchy, a newspaper said on Thursday. The English daily Kathmandu Post said Nepal's central Rastra Bank had asked commercial banks to freeze more than a dozen accounts suspected of links with the rebels.
Government authorities say the rebels extort money and have robbed banks in rural areas.

Central bank officials were not immediately available for comment on the report. Bureau Report