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Nepal officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India. With an area of 147,181 square kilometres (56,827 sq mi) and a population of approximately 30 million, Nepal is the world's 93rd largest country by land massand the 41st most populous country. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the country's largest metropolis. Kathmandu Valley itself has estimated population of 5 million.

Nepal has a rich geography. The mountainous north has eight of the world's ten tallest mountains, including the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest, called Sagarmatha in Nepali. It contains more than 240 peaks over 20,000 ft (6,096 m) above sea level. The fertile and humid south is heavily urbanized.

Appin's purpose is to help companies establish well-organised intelligence capabilities, either internally or as an extension of their capabilities. We aim to assist hard-pressed staff in Competitive Intelligence units and elsewhere to produce not just more, but higher quality assessments of strategic opportunities, competitive threats and the competition's tactics.

Appin specializes in procurement of information that helps faster solving of cases. Emails, networks, computers, websites, smart phones such as IPhone, Blackberry and Android platform are digital repositories of information that can serve valuable input for solving investigation and surveillance cases.

Recent investigations represented by Appin:

• representing a high net worth individual in the largest fraud investigation India has ever known up to date, concerning alleged corruption and money laundering in respect of large scale real estate transactions;
  
• representing a former CFO in a multi jurisdictional high profile case in USA
  
• representing the interests of a listed company in a large criminal investigation regarding fraudulent activities in the building industry in Singapore
  
• representing several multinational companies in cases relating to environmental law issues and involving the pharmaceutical industry.