INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:

Kathmandu, August 5 A Chinese national was arrested with four kilograms gold with the help of Airport Customs Office at Tribhuvan

International Airport at around 10:30pm last night. Lin Ning Xi was arrested during routine security check

Xi had hidden the precious yellow metal in a belt kept inside his luggage. Chief of the Airport Customs Office Gajendra Thakur said instead

of wearing the belt around his waist, the suspect had kept it inside his luggage bag, which was a little weird

&Normally, these days smugglers change the outer colour of the precious yellow metal and try different ways to smuggle gold

But this young fellow had simply placed the gold inside the luggage without properly hiding it.& Four bars of gold weighing one kilogram

each were detected by the X-ray machine during security scanning. Xi, a permanent resident of Beijing, had travelled from Hong Kong and

landed in Kathmandu on Dragon Flight KA 104. Thakur said the 23-year-old had visited Nepal earlier in 2018 and his travel history showed

that he had travelled to countries such as the UAE, Ghana and Hong Kong

&These are countries frequently visited by gold smugglers

This has given us enough room to suspect that Xi was actively involved in smuggling gold,& Thakur added. Meanwhile Deputy Inspector General

Sailesh Thapa Chettri said police are working closely with customs officials to find out the Chinese smuggler contact person here in

Kathmandu. Kathmandu District Court has remanded Xi to six days of judicial custody for further investigation. Of late, the number people

involved in gold smuggling via China has been on the rise

A few days ago, on July 25, Dhana Kamal Gurung, a trader of Dharche Rural Municipality, Gorkha, was arrested for allegedly hiding 16

kilogram illegal gold, which was smuggled through Kerung-Rasuwagadi check-point at Nepal-Tibet border. Police had confiscated 16 gold bars

each weighing one kilogram hidden inside a cave

However, police is yet confirm whether Gurung had smuggled the gold inside the country himself or a smuggling racket was

involved. Similarly, in the second week of April, TIA police, had arrested three Chinese nationals with 3.3 kilograms gold concealed in

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