“Officials and industry insiders attribute this spike to a ‘high’ import duty of 10 per cent from 2013, a booming demand pegged by the World Gold Council at around 840 tonnes in 2014 – 191.7 tonnes in the first quarter of fiscal 2015 alone, up 15 per cent from the same period last year — and a low prosecution rate of those caught smuggling gold. At a time when the NDA government announced a monetisation scheme in this Budget to unlock the value of a part of the 22,000 tonnes of gold (US$1trn) in private hands, a big chunk lies with its own Customs departments – over 2,000 kg seized over the past 10 years.”
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