A captain of the Nepal Airlines has been arrested with a huge amount of undeclared US dollar from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in the Capital on Sunday.

According to SSP Chabilal Joshi of the Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu, captain Subarna Awal was nabbed with USD 93,000 while he was entering the airport for a flight to Dubai last night.

Following the incident, captain Mahesh Man Dangol was assigned to fly the NAC flight RA 229 to the destination.