Prasan Nepal

Introduction

Prasan Nepal is a 21-year-old man from High Point, North Carolina, known online by the moniker “Trippy,” who pleaded guilty on October 8, 2026, to conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child — an admission entered by a self-described leader of 764, the global violent extremist network the FBI describes as built on the systematic abuse, torture, and coercion of minors. Nepal was arrested in 2025 and charged alongside co-defendant Leonidas Varagiannis as part of a sweeping international investigation; he faces a minimum penalty of 15 years and a maximum of 30 years in prison.

Background Information

According to court documents, Nepal and Varagiannis, known as “War,” served as core leaders of 764 and its inner subgroup, 764 Inferno. From approximately 2021 through 2025, Nepal and others used encrypted platforms to coordinate the exploitation of minors worldwide — directing members, enforcing “rules,” managing recruitment, and overseeing the production and circulation of materials used to manipulate and coerce victims. Membership in 764 required prospective recruits to produce “content” that furthered the group’s extremist and abusive aims: those who complied gained status, and those who did not were excluded. Nepal joined 764 in or around early 2021, worked with others including an individual designated as Individual 1 to establish the group, and after Individual 1’s arrest on or about August 25, 2021, emerged as a leader of 764 and remained in that position through April 2025.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Pleaded guilty. Nepal admitted the conspiracy charge in federal court on October 8, 2026. Sentencing has not yet occurred; the 15-to-30-year range is the statutory band for the count to which he admitted.

The network Nepal led operated on documented cruelty. The defendants and their co-conspirators used child sexual abuse material and other gore and violent material to create digital “Lorebooks” — traded as digital currency within 764, archived in encrypted “vaults,” and used to recruit new members or maintain status. Members were instructed in grooming tactics and set content-production expectations; in multiple instances the group’s victims were threatened and caused to engage in self-mutilation, online and in-person sexual acts, harm to animals, sexual exploitation of siblings, acts of violence, threats of violence, suicide, and murder. Court documents put the exploited minor victims at no fewer than eight across multiple jurisdictions, with some content traced back to children as young as 13.

The stored material documented in court filings includes images of the words “764 Kills” written in red on a wall and a video of a 15-year-old victim standing topless while talking on a live chat as she poured bleach on her arm and set it on fire — the kind of coerced self-harm content that investigators describe as the network’s currency. Federal investigators have identified more than a dozen active co-conspirators associated with Nepal and Varagiannis, many operating under aliases in encrypted group channels, in a hierarchical structure designed to recruit vulnerable victims and cultivate notoriety.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The plea drew statements from the top of the Justice Department. FBI Director Kash Patel called it “the latest victory in the FBI’s work with partners to dismantle the violent 764 network,” describing Nepal as “a leader of 764” whose role included “recruiting others to participate in the heinous conduct targeting kids online through sexual assault, pornography, animal crushing, and more,” and noting a nearly 500% increase in 764-related arrests the prior year. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said Nepal “used his leadership role within 764 to orchestrate the systematic exploitation, torture, and psychological destruction of children,” treating victims’ suffering “as currency to be traded among his co-conspirators.” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro for the District of Columbia described the case as exposing “a world where cruelty is currency, violence is entertainment, and children are treated as targets.”

The investigation spanned the District of Columbia, federal field offices across the United States, and law enforcement authorities abroad. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Karen Shinskie and Janani Iyengar for the District of Columbia.

Current Status

Nepal, 21, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child and awaits sentencing, where he faces a statutory range of 15 to 30 years in prison. His co-defendant Leonidas Varagiannis was charged alongside him in the same international investigation, and prosecutors have identified more than a dozen additional active co-conspirators whose cases may follow. The network’s documented activities ran from late 2020 through early 2025; Nepal’s own leadership role, per the court record, ran through April 2025.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Nepal was 21 at his plea and a teenager for most of the period he led a network whose members traded the abuse of children as status — a record that will now define the rest of his life inside the federal system, with a minimum of 15 years before any supervised release even begins. His guilty plea is the centerpiece prosecution in the government’s dismantling of 764’s leadership: the FBI director, the assistant attorney general for national security, and the D.C. U.S. attorney all put their names on the announcement. The eight identified minor victims across multiple jurisdictions, the “Lorebook” economy built on their abuse, and the coerced acts documented in court filings now form the public record of what the network’s leadership did — and the sentencing will measure it.

Sources

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of North Carolina / District of Columbia, “Leader of Global Violent Extremist Network ‘764’ Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Sexually Exploit Minors” — source