3.4 Smuggling Precious Goods

The goods' catalogue: the gold (the region's classic — the open border's flows); the gems-and- jewellery; the artifacts-and-antiquities (the cultural property's theft — the temple world's losses); the sandalwood-and-the-forest products; the currency's counterfeiting-and-smuggling (the fake notes' economy). The Nepal faces: the gold smuggling's recurring cases (the customs' seizures; the air-routes' lore); the artifact trafficking (the UNESCO convention's faces — the Cultural Property Act's world). The prescribed case (cited verbatim): Ram Bahadur Gurung v. Government of Nepal (NKP 2072 B.S., Vol. 8, D.No. 9453) — the counterfeiting of currency case (the organised crime's monetary face — the honest note: read the NKP report for the facts-and- holding). The law: the Customs Act's offences; the Criminal Code's counterfeiting provisions; the Ancient Monument Preservation Act's faces; the Mutual evaluation's trade faces.