Breaching borders and beating tax, India's gold smugglers get creative

India’s immense appetite for gold means smugglers are getting more creative to bypass the country’s high import tax.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence arrested four people last week for smuggling in 66 kilograms of gold, worth about Rs 210 million rupees, and seized fours cars in operations in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh that border Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, according to a statement on the Press Information Bureau. Indians can travel to Bhutan and Nepal freely because of bilateral treaties.

The world’s second-biggest consumer raised import taxes three times in 2013 to control a record current-account deficit, with the rate