Two Indian nationals held at TIA with 5KGs of gold
They arrived from Dubai on a Fly Dubai flight at 6:45 p.m.
KATHMANDU: Two Indian nationals arrested with gold from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) last night.
Two Indian nationals, Suresh Kumar and Mohan Kumar Ganeshan, were apprehended at TIA with five kilograms of gold on Sunday evening.
They arrived from Dubai on a Fly Dubai flight at 6:45 p.m.
Chief of TIA Security, Senior Superintendent of Police Krishna Hari Sharma said that 33-year-old Suresh Kumar and 34-year-old Mohan Kumar Ganeshan, who arrived in Kathmandu last night from the Fly Dubai flight FZ-575, were arrested.
He said, “They were found with a yellow coloured metal that looks like gold coated/pasted on their clothes.”
TIA security chief Sharma further informed that the weight of the gold-looking yellow metal with the clothes of Suresh Kumar is 2.6 kg while the weight of Mohan Kumar’s clothes is 2.5 kg.
Currently, they are being held at the Gaushala Police Office for investigation.
Further inquiries will be conducted by the Customs Police Office.
