Police seize over one million pieces facemasks

The Kathmandu Police arrested five persons alongside over one million pieces facemasks they were dealing to sell on the black market. Police have intensified a search against the black-marketing of daily essentials and emergency goods including the facemask lately.

According to Kathmandu police chief Uttam Raj Subedi, police seized the masks along with a vehicle (Ba 7 Cha 7263) at Milanchok near Kapan in Kathmandu on Sunday evening.

The arrestees are Tekram Shrestha, 30, of Okhaldhunga; Sanjay Regmi, 34, of Bara; Ajim Bax Miya, 26 of Chitwan; RDG International Suppliers’ proprietor Suraj Goyal, 24 of Kathmandu and the same company’s co-founder Indian national Suvas Maheshwari, 37.

Police shared that they were found running the shop depot in a rented house in Chandragiri municiplaity-10. They were found to have been selling each piece of facemask at Rs 31 against its actual price of Rs 3.25, police added.