The Maritime and Commercial Court in Copenhagen has imposed a three-year bankruptcy quarantine on entrepreneur Indra Lal Sapkota, barring him from leading limited liability companies in Denmark after the collapse of his interpreting firm Mayas Tolkeservice.
The ruling was revealed on August 26, 2026 by Avisen Danmark and Viborg Folkeblad, which obtained access to the court decision. Sapkota, also known as Lukas Sapkota, built his companies from Viborg while he was staying in Denmark illegally, according to the paper’s reporting.
In practice, the quarantine means Sapkota may not take part in the management of a company with limited liability, typically an ApS or A/S. Economic expert Per Nikolaj Bukh told the paper that the ruling reflects a finding of grossly irresponsible business conduct, making Sapkota unsuitable to lead commercial enterprises.
The quarantine case was brought by attorney Henrik Selchau Poulsen, the court-appointed trustee in the bankruptcy estate of Mayas Tolkeservice. On paper, Sapkota’s partner Maya Subedi was registered as director of the company. During the estate’s handling, the trustee concluded that Sapkota in reality exercised the actual management.
The court listed several reasons for finding him unfit to participate in business management. Among them were his role in a strawman construction, undocumented transfers of funds, deficient bookkeeping and invoicing to third-party accounts.
Claims against Mayas Tolkeservice alone amount to 36,513,078.43 kroner, according to the ruling cited by Avisen Danmark. Bukh has previously described the size of the claims as inexplicably and surprisingly large.
Viborg Folkeblad documented in December 2024 that Sapkota had been expelled from Denmark with a temporary re-entry ban. He left behind one of the country’s most successful interpreting firms, the holding company Viborg Invest Holding and the property company Jims Bolig ApS, which held real estate worth around 20 million kroner according to the 2024 figures. All three companies have since entered bankruptcy proceedings.
Bukh also noted that the public notice, or forkyndelse, in the quarantine case was made openly accessible through Statstidende. That is unusual, he said, because people under bankruptcy quarantine are not normally listed in a publicly searchable register. According to Bukh, such public notification is used when a person has left the country or cannot otherwise be contacted.
The interpreting firm was already under scrutiny before the bankruptcies. DK Social reported in April 2024 that 11 municipalities jointly terminated their contract with Mayas Tolkeservice over suspected forgery and procurement law violations.
Bukh explained that the quarantine springs from the bankruptcy proceedings and does not feed back into them. The handling of the estate becomes neither better nor worse because of the ruling, he said. Sapkota did not respond in the quarantine case, and he had not returned Avisen Danmark’s request for comment before the article’s deadline.
