Thai traveller held with 3.345 kg cannabis at Kathmandu airport
Nepal police arrested 39-year-old Thai national Yongyut Thuion at Tribhuvan International Airport on the night of 23 March 2026 after 3.345 kg of marijuana was found in his suitcase on arrival from Bangkok. He was handed to the Narcotics Control Bureau in Koteshwor, and no court step has been reported.
🇳🇵 Arrival tunnel gate, Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu · Nepal
Nepal police arrested 39-year-old Thai national Yongyut Thuion at the arrival
tunnel gate of Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on the night of
Monday, 23 March 2026.[1]He was stopped in a security check as he landed in
Kathmandu from Bangkok on a Thai Airways flight.[1]Airport security officers
found the cannabis in his suitcase.[2]
The Tribhuvan International Airport Security Office put the cannabis at 3.435
kg, a weight that includes plastic wrapping, and identified him by passport
number AC 2566356.[3]He had flown in on Thai Airways flight TG 309.[4]Deputy Superintendent of Police Dhundiraj Neupane of the Airport Security Office
gave the account, and the Nepali report says officers checked the man because
his behaviour looked suspicious.[4]
Police took him into custody at the arrival tunnel gate and sent him to the
Narcotics Control Bureau in Koteshwor for further action.[3]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Police arrested nine people for possessing illegal drugs in separate operations across seven districts of Nepal, the Central Police News Room said. Only one case involved cannabis: about 80 kg of ganja found with a 55-year-old man at Balan Khola in Siraha, while the rest turned up brown heroin, brown sugar or prescription medicines.
The Kathmandu Valley Police Office in Ranipokhari reported 444 drug-related cases and 378 arrests in the first three months of the fiscal year, mid-July to mid-October, part of a wider law-and-order campaign in the Valley. Its account named cannabis among the drugs seized but gave no weight for it, grouping it with heroin, pollen and nearly 296,000 ampoules and tablets.
Nepal's Narcotics Control Bureau arrested two Indian nationals at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport with six kilograms of ganja flown in from Thailand. The pair, a woman from Ghaziabad and a youth from Madhubani, were caught during airport screening with two passports and four phones seized; questioning and investigation continue.
Police arrested five people while about 210 kg of marijuana in eight sacks was being loaded into two Scorpio vehicles in Chyandanda, Dharan. Officers fired two rounds in the air as the group tried to flee before taking them into custody.
