KATHMANDU: A foreign national has been arrested at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) for attempting to smuggle cocaine.
According to the Narcotics Control Bureau’s TIA branch, the 21-year-old Brazilian citizen, identified as Emily Mikaele Santos Ferreira, was detained while transiting through Nepal on her way to Bhutan via Doha, Qatar.
Police said Ferreira was caught in the airport’s departure lounge with 1.95 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside black bras, with the drugs wrapped in condoms and concealed in plastic.
Ferreira had reportedly arrived from Brazil via Qatar. The bureau suspects her involvement with an international drug trafficking network.
She is being investigated under Nepal’s Narcotics Control Act, 1976, after the Kathmandu District Court granted an extension of her detention. Further investigation is underway.
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