KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 10

The Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Customs Office has arrested a foreign national along with six and half kilogrammes of gold from the airport on Saturday night.

A team of the Customs Office and TIA Security Office apprehended an Egyptian national Mohamad Mogamad Lasim along with 6.590 kilogrammes gold brought from Dubai.

Chief of the TIA Customs Office, Tokraj Pandey, informed RSS that Lasim who had arrived from Dubai on a Fly Dubai flight was arrested on Saturday night.

The Office has also taken under control two other foreigners in connection with this. The details of the arrestees have not been divulged. The Office confiscated the 6.5 kilos gold that Lasim had brought in powdered form.