A massive luxury car smuggling racket has been uncovered in Kerala, with Customs and the Motor Vehicles Department revealing how high-end vehicles were being routed through Bhutan and re-registered across Indian states using forged documents to evade crores in taxes.

Officials said the modus operandi involved importing premium cars, including BMWs, Audis, Mercedes, and Range Rovers, into Bhutan at concessional duties under special trade treaties.

These vehicles, meant strictly for Bhutanese use, were then smuggled into India across the porous border without paying import duty or GST.

Once inside, the cars were initially registered in “lenient" states such as Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, or Arunachal Pradesh, where road tax is low and regulatory checks are weaker.

They were later re-regist

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