Two foreigners nabbed with 2 kilo gold, Rs 2.4 million cash

Kathmandu, July 22: A team from Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office has nabbed two Chinese citizens with two kilogrammes of gold and Rs 2.4 million cash.

Information Officer of the Office and Superintendent of Police, Kaji Kumar Acharya, said a 34-year-old and a 46-year-old woman from China were arrested from a hotel in Thamel. 

He added that further investigation into the case was underway. 

Meanwhile, police have made public two persons, who were arrested on the charge of cheating Rs 2.164 million by promising foreign employment, today. 

They are Junu Rana Magar, 29, of Barpak Sulikot rural municipality-4 in Gorkha district, currently living at Kathmandu Metropolitan City-15, and Sudeep Kumar Yadav, 33, of Gulariya municipality-2 in Bardiya district, currently living at KMC-32. 

Junu had taken Rs 310,000 by promising to send a person to Slovakia while Sudeep Rs 1.854 million by promising to send another person to Serbia for foreign employment. Magar and Yadav both remained out of contact. 

Both of them have been sent to Department of Foreign Employment, Tahachal, for necessary investigation and action. (RSS)