Kathmandu, April 27
Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organisation, has issued a diffusion notice against the leader of a Nepali gold smuggling racket, Chudamani Upreti aka Gore.
After 33.5 kg gold that police already confiscated disappeared and a person was killed in connection with this case, an investigation launched by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Nepal Police has found that Upreti would smuggle gold in cahoots with senior police officials.
The probe team suspected that Upreti is currently abroad, therefore Nepal Police recommended Interpol for the diffusion notice.
Now, police organisations of 192 counties, which are members of Interpol, will launch a search for Upreti.
In the second week of January this year, 33.5 kg gold smuggled to Nepal from the United Arab Emirates had gone missing without reaching its owner. Later, it was found that its mule Sanam Shakya was murdered.
Later, the investigation claimed that police, under the request of Upreti, covered details about the murder as well as the smuggling. It is also said that Upreti himself planned the murder.
