By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Jan. 3: At around 1:30 pm on Saturday, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Surendra Prasad Mainali received a tipoff from the Biratnagar Airport.
Chief at the Metropolitan Police Airport Security Office (MPASO) of the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) SSP Mainali was informed that someone kept a suspicious bag in flight number SAU724 of Saurya Airlines which was about to take off for Kathmandu.
“When the flight was getting ready for take-off after boarding all the passengers, someone was seen keeping a bag, which had not been passed through security checking, inside the flight’s luggage storing area,” said SSP Mainali.
After that, SSP Mainali kept an eye over the bag and some officers were deployed after the bag in plain clothes.
Police then arrested an employee of the Saurya Airlines who had come to receive the bag. She was Resha Shakya Pokhrel, an assistant at Saurya Airlines, Kathmandu.
“It was a red mail bag with ‘Bhadrapur’ written on it. Inside it was a box of Current noodles packed in a red plastic. The box contained 4,950 notes of Rs. 1,000 denomination and 100 notes of Rs. 500 denomination that amounted to Rs. 5 million in total,” read a statement by the MPASO.
While police seized the money in Kathmandu, the individual who kept the bag in Biratnagar was already identified.
“Prakash Poudel, station in-charge for Saurya Airlines of Biratnagar Airport, was the one who kept the bag of money.
He was arrested there after the money was seized in Kathmandu,” said SSP Mainali.
Shakya was handed over to the Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) in Hariharbhawan, Lalitpur, with the money on Saturday for further investigation and legal process.
Poudel was brought to Kathmandu and handed to the DRI on Sunday.
“Poudel arrived today and we have initiated an investigation into them. We are in the initial phase and will probe the source and destination of the money alongside the reason for smuggling it,” said DRI spokesperson Tanka Prasad Acharya.
Acharya, who is also the deputy director general at DRI, informed that the duo would face legal action based on the revelations during the investigation.
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