Police on Wednesday arrested Vice President of the All Nepal Football Association Dawa Lama.

Superintendent of Police Rabindra Regmi, spokesperson for the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, said Lama was arrested from Kathmandu.

Lama is a convict in a drug smuggling case. The Patan High Court on June 3, 2007, convicted Lama in the case and sentenced him to five years in jail and fined Rs5,000.

In Police records, he was on the run and police were searching him since the court announced the verdict, said SP Regmi.