LEH, Sept. 10 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has unearthed a massive cross-border gold smuggling racket that allegedly pushed over 1,000 kilograms of foreign-origin gold into India during 2023 and 2024, worth nearly Rs.800 crore.

The revelation comes in connection with the July 2024 seizure of 108 gold bars, each weighing one kilogram, near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh. The gold was intercepted on July 9 by an Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) patrol at Sirigaple in the Changthang sub-sector, leading to the arrest of two men - Tsering Chamba and Stanzin Dorgyal.

According to the ED, the syndicate was masterminded by Tendu Tashi in India, who worked in close coordination with a Chinese national, identified as B...