After a long drive from across the border in China, the white truck arrived in Nepal's capital at dawn with a seemingly innocuous cargo of Chinese-made clothes.

But hidden in a cylinder inside the vehicle's front bumper was the latest haul of gold smuggled from Tibet—bars weighing some 35 kilograms and worth several million dollars on the black market.

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