Two foreigners held with cocaine

KATHMANDU: Police have apprehended two foreign nationals in possession of 1.40 kg cocaine.

A team from the Narcotics Control Bureau of Nepal Police held Tanzanian national Zuma Abdulla Maji and Indian national K Juchobeni Tasopoi on the charge of their involvement in trafficking the narcotics substance. The police made them public today.

The Bureau’s team confiscated 80 capsules of cocaine concealed inside a bag belonging to the Tanzanian national Zuma who has been staying in a hotel at New Baneshwar, Kathmandu Metropolitan City-10.

The Indian citizen has also been arrested when Zuma was selling the cocaine to him, said Deputy Inspector General Dan Bahadur Karki, the Spokesman at the Police Headquarters.

According to the Bureau, the price of the confiscated cocaine is around Rs 38.7 million in the black market.

Police said investigation is under way against the two arrested persons on narcotics drugs trafficking case, extending their custody remand by taking permission from the District Court Kathmandu.