2017考研英语拓展阅读：印度破获7000公斤黄金走私案

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2017考研英语拓展阅读：印度破获7000公斤黄金走私案

　　A Guwahati-based bullion trader has been arrested for smuggling 7,000kg of gold through the Indo-Myanmar border and bringing it to Delhi.

　　高哈蒂一名金条商人因为通过印度与缅甸边境将7000公斤黄金走私至德里而被捕。

　　A probe from revenue intelligence officials has revealed that the trader had made hundreds of smuggling trips, and is said to be the mastermind of Rs 2,000 crore smuggling racket.

　　印度税收情报局官员的调查显示，这名商人为了走私往来印缅边境数百次，据说这名团伙主脑的涉案金额达到了200亿卢比(约合20亿元人民币)。

　　One Narendra Kumar Jain, found himself under suspicion when the Directorate of Intelligence seized his 10 kg gold consignment at IGI Airport early this month.

　　本月早些时候，税收情报局在首都新德里英迪拉·甘地国际机场发现纳兰德拉·卡马尔·杰恩托运的货物中藏有总重10公斤的金条，该人随即受到怀疑。

　　Kumar and his Delhi-based aide, was then arrested and a number of private airline staffers are also being quizzed in this connection.

　　卡马尔和他德里的助手之后被逮捕，一家私人航空公司的数名员工涉案，正接受调查。

　　Sustained interrogation revealed that Jain had made 617 trips to Guwahati for the purpose of smuggling gold over a period of past two-and-a-half years.

　　随后的审讯证实，在两年半的时间里，杰恩去了高哈蒂617次，目的就是走私黄金。

　　So far, smugglers were known for using train and bus routes to carry smuggled gold into different parts of India.

　　到目前为止，走私者惯用的伎俩是通过火车和公共汽车将走私来的黄金运往印度各地。

　　However, Jain had adopted a new modus operandi. He used to smuggle 24 carat purity gold bars into India.

　　但是，杰恩却发明了一种新的作案手段。他向印度境内走私了24克拉纯金金条。

　　Once the gold bars were received in Guwahati, he would declare and book gold as valuable cargo in domestic flights between Guwahati and Delhi.

　　金条到达高哈蒂之后，他就会搭乘国内航班，以运输贵重物品的方式把黄金运至德里等地。

　　Interestingly, he was using a particular private airline for this purpose.

　　有趣的是，为了这个目的，他一直坐某个特定的私人航空公司的航班。

　　Investigations have revealed that the airline staffers knew that gold was being transported through the cargo.

　　调查还显示，航空公司的员工知道托运的是黄金。

　　Jain has previous arrests for smuggling of gold. He was arrested by enforcement agencies in Guwahati in February 2015 for smuggling gold of about 12 kgs and was later released on bail.

　　杰恩此前因为走私黄金而被捕过。2015年2月，他在高哈蒂因为走私12公斤黄金被执法机关逮捕，后被保释。

　　Sleuths are trying to identify the buyers of the smuggled gold suspected to be in the NCR region in adjoining states.

　　警官们正在试图确认走私黄金买家的身份——有可能来自邻国的首都地区。

　　Intelligence suggests huge quantities of gold bars of foreign origin are being smuggled from Myanmar through Indo-Myanmar border adjacent to Moreh in Manipur and from Zokhawthar area in Mizoram.

　　税收情报局表示，数量如此巨大的黄金来自国外，通过印缅边境马尼普的莫雷市以及米佐拉姆邦佐卡瓦地区，从缅甸走私黄金。

　　These activities relating to gold smuggling are continuing unabated. Detection of smuggling of gold through Indo-Myanmar border becomes difficult due to topography and porosity of the land border.

　　这些与黄金走私有关的活动势头没有消减。因为印缅边境多孔的地形，侦测该地区黄金走私活动变得非常困难。

　　DRI has been making seizures of gold of foreign origin gold emanating from Myanmar, including seizure of 87 kg in March 2015 at Siliguri and 58 Kg of gold at Kolkata in August 2016 in which 12 persons were arrested.

　　印度税收情报局查获了从缅甸走私来的大量黄金，包括2015年3月在西里古里查获的87公斤以及2016年8月在加尔各答查获的87公斤黄金，8月份这次行动同时逮捕了12人。

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