mobanmarketKathmandu: Alert security personnel in Kathmandu airport pounced on a Chinese man who they noticed was walking suspiciously. The man was arrested for concealing one kg gold in his rectum.
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Security personnel at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) arrested Chinese national Sa Luitui, 22, last week after an X-ray machine detected the metal in his body during security screening at a walk through gate of the arrival point. He had landed on a Tibet Air flight from China.
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Police suspected that something was wrong with the man after he was spotted behaving suspiciously and walking in a peculiar way, the Himalayan Times reported.
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When quizzed, the Chinese admitted to concealing gold in his rectum.
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Police, with the help of doctors at the Sinamangal-based KMC Hospital, removed the contraband which he had placed inside a condom with its part outside so that he could pull it out easily after reaching his destination.
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The airport has reported three such cases of gold smuggling earlier.
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Last week, two other Chinese nationals were arrested with eight kilograms of undeclared gold being smuggled via the airport.
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Police said smugglers were changing their modus operandi for smuggling gold through Tribhuvan International Airport.
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Concealing gold in the rectum, battery box, laptop, baggage, air-filter of vehicle, cargo trucks and inner sole of shoes are some ways adopted by smugglers.
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Smugglers also mould gold into jewellery and wear them to outsmart security officials.
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Similarly, racketeers have been using returnee Nepali migrant workers to smuggle gold.
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According to statistics released by Nepal Police, it seized 108 kg of gold in fiscal 2018-19 compared to 72 kg in the previous fiscal.
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Officials said they had not been able to completely control gold smuggling for want of hi-tech screening devices and detectors along the borders and TIA, the daily said.
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Most of the smuggled gold enters Nepal through TIA and Tatopani and Rasuwagadi-Kerung border points from Tibet, China.
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