Sentences with phrase «for illicit trade»

«I'm delighted by huge amount of support the APPG for Illicit Trade has received since it was established last year.

As a key element of these efforts to reduce demand, disrupt the trade, and set a global example, we urge the United States to implement a moratorium on domestic ivory trade — an important action that would build upon the messages of the ivory crush and close loopholes in U.S domestic legislation that allow for illicit trade to continue.

With its nearly unlimited scope, largely unregulated access and relative anonymity, the Internet has emerged as the preferred method for the illicit trade of elephant ivory and other endangered animals and their parts.

Police files from the time indicate Viktor aroused suspicion for illicit trade and tax evasion in 1976.

Not exact matches

On its website, Verge is described as a cryptocurrency which «improves upon the Bitcoin blockchain» and uses open - source software like Tor and I2P — both of which have been used in connection to the former trading site for illicit goods, the Silk Road.

Washington said Thailand, a regional human trafficking hub, had not met the minimum standards for the elimination of the illicit trade.

At the same time, the Center for Sanctions and Illicit Finance of the Defense of Democracies Foundation outlined in a study that a tiny 0.61 % of the money which enters cryptocurrency trading and conversion platforms has been used against regulations.

Mirror trades were a favored conduit in the first half of this decade, regulators say, but they've been replaced by other mechanisms for moving money, including illicit reinsurance contracts and fraudulent court orders.

To him, anonymity clearly means that it can be used even more conveniently for funding terror activities and other illicit trades such as drugs and weapons.

For years after Satoshi Nakamoto unveiled Bitcoin, the digital currency had a reputation for being a platform that primarily served drug trade and other forms of illicit spendiFor years after Satoshi Nakamoto unveiled Bitcoin, the digital currency had a reputation for being a platform that primarily served drug trade and other forms of illicit spendifor being a platform that primarily served drug trade and other forms of illicit spending.

TMA suggested that plain packs would «likely lead to yet further increases in the illicit trade in tobacco products by making them much easier for a counterfeiter to copy than existing branded packs.»

Yet one area of this booming illicit trade receives more attention than most: poaching for ivory and rhino horn.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who called SAC «a veritable magnet for market cheaters,» said the hedge fund reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits through separate insider - trading schemes by at least eight former SAC fund managers and analysts.

The police sting hit two markets, AlphaBay and Hansa, that were responsible for the trading of over 350, 000 illicit goods such as drugs, firearms and cybercrime malware

BitTorrent software poses a particular problem for stopping the trade of these illicit images because it breaks the files into pieces and sends them from one computer to the next via different paths without passing through any centralized servers.

«Illicit fossil trade presents a great challenge to modern palaeontology and accounts for a dramatic loss of Mongolian scientific heritage,» says Pascal Godefroit of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

Before it was reborn as one of Singapore's chicest boutiques, the Warehouse Hotel was the site of a notorious 1980's disco; farther back still, its riverbank was known for opium dens and all manner of illicit trades.

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Gibson Guitars» agreement to pay a $ 300,000 fine for its role in importing illegal timber from Madagascar is a major breakthrough in the fight to end the multi-billion dollar global trade in illicit wood, said Global Witness today.

Secondly, in its forthcoming guideline for companies trading timber, the State Forest Administration (SFA) should draw on the UN due diligence framework designed to exclude illicit materials from minerals supply chains.

Security Council members should also strengthen MONUC's mandate to tackle the illicit mineral trade when this comes up for renewal in May.

The report underscores the importance of the work being done by Goldman Prize winners like Silas Siakor (2006), who is fighting for stricter logging regulations in Liberia and around the world; Fatima Jibrell (2002), who is working to provide sustainable economic alternatives to the illicit charcoal trade in Somalia; and Raoul du Toit (2011), who has dedicated his life to protecting Southern Africa's last remaining rhino populations from poachers.

Because of fears that marijuana from cannabis grown for industrial hemp could be diverted into the illicit drug trade, the DEA has refrained from granting such registrations.

The UN Security Council recently passed a resolution paving the way for the imposition of asset freezes and travel bans on companies that support armed groups in eastern Congo via the illicit mineral trade.

«Brexit will create new challenges for tackling illicit trade and the APPG will be keen to hear from the government and enforcement agencies about how they are planning for our new relationship with the EU.

I'm pleased that the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury has written to me to welcome the establishment of the APPG, and I look forward to working with him and other ministers responsible for tackling illicit trade in the coming months.

Matthew Offord, MP for Hendon and Chair of the Illicit Trade APPG said: «Illicit Trade will be affecting businesses, workers and customers in all constituencies, so it's right that Parliamentarians investigate its scale, activity and how it can be best tackled.

The All - Party Parliamentary Group on Illicit Trade, which was established earlier this year, will question whether the Government's current approach and response is fit for purpose.

Our report will make a series of recommendations that we hope will influence policies for dealing with illicit trade for the years ahead.»

The estimates refer to the loss of value derived specifically from brands and do not account for further potential losses resulting from changes in price and volume of the products sold, or illicit trade.

The All - Party Parliamentary Group on Illicit Trade, which was established earlier this year, will question whether the Government's current approach and response is fit for...

Matthew Offord MP for Hendon who is setting up the Group said: «Illicit trade impacts on everyone no matter what business they are in and no matter if they are a multinational corporation, a small high street shop, a consumer or a taxpayer.

Dr Steven Carden, anti-illicit trade expert at PA commented: «Human behaviours, evolving technologies and regulatory environments are all part of the challenges as well as the solutions for combatting illicit trade.

He states that: «Internet surveillance in the workplace is not at the employer's discretionary power -LRB-...) Even where there exist suspicions of cyberslacking, diversion of the employer's IT resources for personal purposes, damage to the employer's IT systems, involvement in illicit activities or disclosure of the employer's trade secrets, the employer's right to interfere with the employee's communications is not unrestricted.»

So for every negative story about Bitcoin being used to fund illicit trade on the dark web, there is a small businessperson in a developing market that has had their life transformed positively by mobile payments.

The scandal — involving the illicit collection of data from 50 million Facebook users, and its later use by Trump campaign analytics vendor Cambridge Analytica — has helped chop off nearly $ 50 billion in value from Facebook's market cap since last Friday, led to calls from US lawmakers for Zuckerberg testify before congress, and raised eyebrows at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which is now probing the company.

Bitcoin was used to trade in illicit products and services on the dark web, as it was relatively simple to get hold of, reliable, and very hard for anyone to monitor transactions and where the money ended up.

China has long been home to a booming illicit «trade» for new iPhones smuggled into the country through ports like Hong Kong or Shanghai.

For most of Bitcoin's nine years, it was viewed as either almost completely worthless — famously in 2010, 10,000 bitcoins were once traded in exchange for two pizzas — or as a more secure means to purchase illicit substances or services through shadowy online marketplaces like the Silk Road, Hansa, or Alphabay — all of which have since been shut doFor most of Bitcoin's nine years, it was viewed as either almost completely worthless — famously in 2010, 10,000 bitcoins were once traded in exchange for two pizzas — or as a more secure means to purchase illicit substances or services through shadowy online marketplaces like the Silk Road, Hansa, or Alphabay — all of which have since been shut dofor two pizzas — or as a more secure means to purchase illicit substances or services through shadowy online marketplaces like the Silk Road, Hansa, or Alphabay — all of which have since been shut down.

US persons and firms will be responsible for ensuring they are not engaged in transactions prohibited by the sanctions or illicit trade and investment - related transactions.

An academic report shows that the role of illicit bitcoin trade in drugs and weapons is decreasing, and cryptocurrency exchanges now account for the overwhelming majority of transactions.

«China should cooperate with international law enforcement to investigate how indigenous Chinese underground financial systems, virtual currencies, and trade - based value transfer are used for illicit outbound transfers, and to receive inbound remittances and criminal proceeds,» the INLEA

«China should cooperate with international law enforcement to investigate how indigenous Chinese underground financial systems, virtual currencies, and trade - based value transfer are used for illicit outbound transfers, and to receive inbound remittances and criminal proceeds,» the INLEA report concludes.