AMERICAN ENERGY CONTRACTOR IN A LONG-TERM PREDICAMENT IN NEPAL

A 69-year-old American independent contractor has been remanded in jail in Nepal for than 5 months and has been fighting for his life and release over and over again. The situation has been termed a witch-hunt from the people in the Kathmandu government officials over Mr. Cross's inability to pay up workers and owing many debts after so much delay on his Biomass energy plant projects, that has spanned up to 2 years in Nepal according to local reports.

Our reporters met with William Cross, CEO of powerhive constructions in the early days of April 2026. An international Maven in the building of biomass energy plants business. Based in Texas, USA and does businesses in other parts of the world. He met his unfortunate situation after been awarded a project to build a Biomass plant in Nepal for the first time in 2024. Without checking with the laws of the state of Nepal, Cross embarked on his life changing project, which he termed as one of his biggest projects in the last 10 years, and the last project he must finish before retirement.

However, Cross failed to alert his bank back in the USA about his trip due to preparing and so much pressure from clients. That was his first mistake, he ended up having his account blocked by his bank and all other banks attached to him after exhausting about one million dollars on the project and needing money to clear a shipment coming in from Germany to Nepal.

Cross told our reporters that he had cleared the shipment and paid other bills from help he got from his daughters, and his girlfriend who is based in San Antonio Texas and has helped in about 90% of his situation thus far. He called her his angel sent from heaven and they have had talks about getting married and moving in together when he gets released and sent home.

Our reporters could not believe the Nepal jail living conditions of Cross who happens to be a multi-millionaire back in the USA. He is being kept in a jail where the worse of the worse humans are meant to be. A man we could believe is of good character.

One time he was released sometime in last year and asked to go home, but he got attacked by locals who had his arm broken and jaw stitched, which had him bedridden for many weeks, keeping him out of touch with his daughters and girlfriend who was expecting to receive him at the airport back in Texas.

Cross, has been in and out of courts and paying several fines here and there, but the anonymous tip who hinted us about this case after just finding out about it, had let us know that this will be the last time he makes any payment and not get released from Nepal and sent back home. They will all make sure he is being escorted VIP style to the airport until the plane takes off, after his final payment.

Cross's case was sent to the supreme court of Nepal, and the verdict is he must pay restitution to the victims amongst his workers amounting to $440,000 (four hundred and forty thousand USD).

This is for the workers owed and the families of the workers that died due to this ordeal. So far about 2 men who worked on this project had died from injury incurred during the project while 3 had died due to depression that led to heart attacks and other sicknesses from not getting paid by the powerhive project. The recent ones were in January this year 2026.

Cross can only hope for a miracle right now, but the high court has also assured his safety to the airport immediately he pays up the $440,000 USD and sent home. He will also be treated specially in jail until he leaves for the outer world and can go home. His passport is being held until this is actualized.