Three Foreign Nationals Arrested in Kathmandu with 1.5kg Cocaine

Kathmandu. The Narcotics Control Bureau of Nepal Police has arrested three foreign nationals from Kathmandu with approximately 1.5 kg of illegal cocaine. The arrested include one Senegalese male and two Indian women.

According to the Bureau, Amadou Sar, a 43-year-old citizen of Senegal, who arrived in Kathmandu from Ethiopia via Doha on Qatar Airways flight QR 646 on Jestha 26, was kept under surveillance on suspicion. When he was taken into control from a hotel in Thamel and searched, 16 plastic-coated cocaine capsules, which he had swallowed and hidden inside his stomach, were found. Further investigation revealed that there were more capsules inside his stomach, and the police admitted him to the hospital and extracted 60 more capsules with the help of doctors. The Bureau stated in a press release today that a total of 1.5 kg of cocaine was found inside the 76 capsules extracted from his stomach.

Two Indian women who came to receive the cocaine also arrested

According to the police, during further investigation of the arrested Sar, it was revealed that two women had come to Kathmandu from New Delhi, India, to receive the said cocaine. Based on that information, the police arrested Ruby, 36, and Sony, 31, residing in Khanpur, South Delhi, India, from the same hotel in Thamel on Jestha 31, i.e., Sunday. The police have also recovered one passport, 2 Indian Aadhar cards, and 3 mobile phones from them. According to the Bureau's spokesperson and Deputy Superintendent of Police Durga Raj Regmi, further investigation is underway against all three defendants under the Narcotics Control Act.