Sentences with phrase «behind illicit trade»

The All Party Parliamentary Group which will be made up of Peers and MPs from across the political spectrum will look at some of the key issues and drivers behind illicit trade across a range of sectors.

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The creative idea behind The Smugglers Series, meanwhile, was to honour the tradition of the illicit whisky trade that operated during the 18th and 19th centuries across Scotland in general, and specifically, from The Isle of Arran, up the River Clyde to Glasgow, a hub of market activity at the time.

The driving factor behind these troubling figures, reports the UN, lies in the burgeoning illicit wildlife trade, once a localized market that is increasingly grown into a highly - profitable network of organized crime — on par with the drug and arms trade.

The international trade in endangered species is a lucrative business, with some recent estimates putting its worth at up to $ 20 billion annually, making it one of the most profitable international crimes, behind the illegal drug trade, the illicit arms trade, and human trafficking.