In what police say is the biggest gold haul in recent decades at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport, ten persons have been arrested on the charge of smuggling in the yellow metal weighing around 100 kg. The gross weight of the consignment, which includes motorcycle brake shoes, is 155 kg, according to officials at the Mint division of the Nepal Rastra Bank, on whose custody the consignment has been entrusted.
On Tuesday, the Department of Revenue Investigation assisted by the Armed Police Force personnel seized gold estimated to be worth over a billion rupees and arrested six individuals. Two days later, on Thursday, four persons including a Chinese national were arrested. The Chinese was arrested from the airport as he was trying to leave the country. The three others are Nepali nationals—Krishna Kumar Shrestha, Rajan Shrestha and Pushkar Raj Bhattarai.
