India, Sept. 9 -- A probe into the seizure of a large quantity of gold near the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh in July 2024 has indicated that the gold smuggling syndicate behind the incident had smuggled 1,064kg of the precious metal into the country in 2023 and 2024, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said in a statement on Tuesday.

The July 9, 2024, seizure was made by a patrol team of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Actual Control, which caught two persons with 108 gold bars, each weighing 1 kg. The two suspects, caught in Sirigaple, Changthang sub-sector, in eastern Ladakh, were identified as Tsering Chamba and Stanzin Dorgyal.

ED subsequently also started investigating the money laundering aspect of the case.

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