IGP Nawaraj Silwal Interview

Stakeholders on Tuesday expressed the need on enforcing effective mechanism on growing gold smuggling through Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). Speaking at Parliamentary Finance

Committee meeting they showed the concern on the need to bringing forth the main players than the carriers of the gold smuggling. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police on Thursday seized 33 kg of gold from the TIA that had passed undetected through the customs. A CIB team nabbed Gopal Bahadur Shahi who had landed at the TIA from the UAE in an Air Arabia flight. Shahi was arrested after he had already made his way out of the airport. The seizure of such a huge amount of gold has raised questions over the security situation at the country’s only international airport. According to the stakeholders, lack of coordination among over 30 government authorities that are present at TIA has led to an increasing smuggling of goods including gold through the entry point, said stakeholders. Reviewing the security checking, upgrading the technology at the TIA and supervision and management the TIA based staffs have been sought to check the contrabands through the country’s one of the main customs points.

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