Police confiscate US $ 55,000 at airport

December 25, 2002
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The Valley Crime Investigation Department arrested Kanyarashi Gurung, a resident of Lamjung district with fifty five thousand US dollars while attempting to smuggle it out through Tribhuvan International Airport Tuesday.

According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Binod Singh, police at the airport followed Gurung after suspecting that he had hidden some foreign currency. On frisking Gurung’s body, the police found that he had hidden seven thousand US dollars in his anal tract.

Gurung was taken to the Birendra Police Hospital for further lab investigation. The doctors detected that he had consumed capsules, which contained 48,000 US dollars in total. Gurung was arrested in the transit area of the Tribhuvan International Airport while he was about to board the Thai Airways plane to Hong Kong.