An Israeli man has been arrested with 480 gram of hashish from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu on Monday. The man bearing an Israeli passport no 22317152 was identified as Noam Inbar, 59. 

TIA security personnel caught Inbar when he was boarding a Doha-bound Qatar Airways plane carrying the contraband drugs. The narcotic stuff was hidden inside a false bottom in his waist.

Authorities say the TIA has been found to be used as major transit for smuggling drugs to Asian and other markets.