A 21-year-old Bolivian woman has been arrested by Nepalese police from a hotel here on the basis of information provided by Indian police for her alleged involvement in an international cocaine smuggling racket.
Teodovich Gonzales Paole was arrested from a hotel of Thamel on Friday, according to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of Nepal Police.
She was arrested on the basis of information given by Indian Police. An Indian woman, Rose Kashung, 41, was arrested in possession of 3.12 kg cocaine from Nepal-India border point in Sunauli of Rupandehi district.
During the interrogation, she had told India's Narcotics Control Bureau that she received the contraband from an unidentified person living at the hotel in Kathmandu.
She was arrested on August 16 and had told police that she had returned from Kathmandu.
The Indian officials had written to the NCB here, requesting cooperation to search the suspect. The NCB then had swung into the action.
Police said, the Bolivian woman had arrived Nepal from Brazil via Ethiopia and India
Earlier, on August 9 and 10, police had arrested two foreign women- a Thai and a Bolivian - from Kathmandu oncharge of cocaine smuggling to and from Kathmandu.
Police had claimed they were drug muleshired by international drug smuggling rackets.
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