Kathmandu, Nepal: Nepal Police has on Sunday filed a case at the Kathmandu District Court against 12 persons arrested in different dates on the charge of 33.5 kg gold smuggling case.
Though the Nepal Police has indicted a senior Nepal Police Official, four TIA Customs Office staff, three alleged smugglers and four jewelers, it is said that other 18 persons are suspected to be involved in the gold smuggling case.
A team f Nepal Police had arrested three persons from the Gausala area of Kathmandu with 33.5 kg smuggled gold on January 5. The gold was smuggled from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), the only International airport of the country.
Narayan Yadav, Raj Kumar Dhakal, Shyam Krishna Shrestha and Ram Hari Karki have been indicated from the TIA Customs Office. Nepal Police SSP Shyam Bahadur Khatri is indicated from the Nepal Police in the case.
Gopal Bahadur Shahi, Santosh Kafle and Dil Bandhu Thapa were arrested in possession of the smuggled gold while they were hiding the gold it in a luggage on a taxi. Kafle and Thapa had come there to receive Shahi.
Likewise other indicated persons in the case are Rojesh Shakya, Sunil Shrestha, Sapan Shrestha and Manoj Shrestha, the operators of the New Road-based Baibhav Laxmi Gold and Silver Palace.
