Sentences with phrase «from illegal sources»

Along with the rapidly rising interest in real estate is an increased concern that some of the money used to buy properties is from illegal sources.

If it's true, then your card or account numbers may have been obtained through any number of ways; identity thieves may use every means at their disposal, from credit card skimmers to buying your numbers from illegal sources.

In 2000, the United States alone imported over $ 450 million worth of timber from Indonesia, which given Indonesia's illegal logging rate could represent $ 330 million worth of timber from illegal sources.

Other countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laos and Ghana produced smaller volumes of wood but a higher proportion came from illegal sources.

Because something is legal doesn't mean it has to be obtained from illegal sources.

e from chemical fertiliser production, but theymay also be from an illegal source.

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Many WeChat users use the three - year - old instant messaging service as a news source, but some people have used them to distribute illegal information, «seriously undermining public interests and order in cyberspace,» said a statement from China's State Internet Information Office.

Sources at the European Commission and the European Parliament have confirmed that network - level ad blocking would therefore be illegal, unless individual EU countries pass specific legislation to exempt it from the bloc - wide net neutrality rules.

I keep hearing different stories from different sources,» he told the New York Daily News «We think it's going to turn out to be untrue because it would be totally illegal.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Reports from state - owned media sources in China on January 19, 2018, indicate that a circular, titled «Notice Concerning the Self - examination and Rectification of Providing Payment Services for Illegal Virtual Currency Transactions,» was released online.

Spanish sources believe that Barca are in pole position to land the Atetico Madrid star, although the Madrid giants are far from pleased with their La Liga rivals and are reporting them over a possible illegal approach.

This isn't about privileged women saying «breast is best» (a woman's choice how to feed her child is her own)-- it is about misleading, unethical, and in some cases illegal marketing practices, illegally sourcing milk from a horrible dictator, and the use of slave labor.

These include the use of child labour, sourcing chocolate from cacao farms which use slave labour, stealing rural water resources in the United States, marketing formula with questionable and sometimes outright illegal claims, etc etc..

As government struggles to deal with the age - old menace of illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, various reports from the Water Resources Commission and the Water Research Institute show the practice may soon leave Ghanaians without proper sources of drinking water.

The Guardian journalist Nick Davies described commissions from the News of the World as the «golden source» of income for Rees» «empire of corruption», which involved a network of contacts with corrupt police officers and a pattern of illegal behaviour extending far beyond phone hacking.

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Unsurprisingly, as another source of cash, school officials also made it clear they are eyeing the unprecedented $ 5.1 billion windfall the state has collected from major New York - based banks that have admitted to engaging in illegal foreign transactions.

General News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: citinewsroom.com Affected residents around Madina REDCO flat attempt to rebuild despite threats from the Assembly A day after a joint task - force of police and officials from the LaNkwantanangMadina Municipal Assembly (LANMA) demolished some illegal buildings around the Madina REDCO flat; the unperturbed affected residents have begun rebuilding their structures.

Speaking with the newspaper, a source from the EFCC explained that based on the vetting, the commission is insisting that all those implicated so far must refund the «illegal disbursement» of cash or face trial.

Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

They sometimes cover up the massive production of the illegal small coal miners to conceal income from tax sources.

The MFA relies on open source data from the AIS which, while not suitable for a systematic control of potentially illegal fishing, is more accessible and offers new possibilities for research.

The sale of unpasteurised raw milk (sourced straight from the cow's udder) is illegal in Australia because of hygiene concerns.

Anabolic steroids are not illegal but the problem is that some people will misuse them or simply get them from bad sources.

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After catching a drug lord in Atlanta who seems to have much larger connections to several illegal trading, the two head down to Miami to find the source and team up with a Miami cop (Olivia Munn) and a man on the run from a man named Antonio Pope (Benjamin Bratt).

The Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act identify a number of factors that are illegal to use in evaluating a prospective applicant's qualifications: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age (provided the applicant has the legal capacity to contract), source of income derived from public assistance, handicap, familial status (families with dependents under age 18).

Even differences between legitimate sources can result in civil and criminal sanctions from the IRS, let alone questionable, dubious and illegal sources.

To make matters worse, targeting responsible retailers would incentivize consumers to go to the unregulated black market, where they are far more likely to find dogs from illegal, unregulated sources — the very same unethical breeders Senator Lesniak says he wants to stop.

Gov. Jerry Brown last Friday signed into law bill A.B. 485, making it illegal for pet stores to sell dogs, cats, and rabbits from any source other than a shelter or rescue group.

Even those of us in the know are susceptible to the emotional testimony offered by those who describe conditions at unlicensed, illegal breeding facilities only to misleadingly call for a ban on the sale of animals from pet stores, which are required to obtain their animals from USDA - licensed and inspected sources.

RSPCA Victoria chief executive officer, Dr. Liz Walker stated, «Illegal operators will no longer be able to slip under the radar because anyone selling or advertising a puppy, kitten, dog or cat for sale will need to get a source number from the Pet Exchange Register, and use it in all advertising.»

In point of fact, every painting in the show is of content deemed illegal in the PRC, with the source images taken from websites currently blocked in the PRC, made by workers in the PRC.

Constantly outgunned by poachers» high - tech helicopters, machine guns, night - vision binoculars, bullet - proof vests and insane arsenal in the illegal trade of «medicinal» rhino horns that are worth more than gold, one pissed - off game manager outside of Johannesburg, South Africa wants to do the unthinkable: inject poison into horns as a deadly warning to would - be poachers and the consumers who would buy them.According to South Africa's The Times, Ed Hern, owner of the Lion and Rhino Park outside of Johannesburg, says injecting poison into rhino's horns will protect them from poachers and kill the demand for rhino horn right at the source, which is prized as a medicinal ingredient in Asian medicine.

WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015)-- More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia's industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear - cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well - managed logging concessions, 2 according to a new study analyzing Indonesian Ministry of Forestry and timber industry data to assess the sustainability of the country's booming pulp and paper industry.

Gambling on Extinction is a powerful documentary that explores the complexities of the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, from the African sources to Asian markets.

Editor's Note: For the report and supplementary materials, please go to https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/government-industry-data-suggest-30-percent-wood-used-indonesias-industrial-forest-sector-comes-unreported-illegal-sources/ WASHINGTON, DC (17 February 2015)-- More than 30 percent of wood used by Indonesia's industrial forest sector1 stems from the unreported clear - cutting of natural forests and other illegal sources instead of legal tree plantations and well - managed logging concessions, 2 according to a new study analyzing -LSB-...]

Increasingly, this work is highlighting illegal land use / conversion, the role of conversion timber in the global sourcing of wood fiber, and agricultural supply chains from legal or zero - deforestation zones.

Mongabay is reporting that a Brazilian federal prosecutor has launched an investigation into companies illegal harvesting wood from protected areas in the state and then passing it off as eco-certified in US, EU, and Asian markets: Though right now no specific firms have been named (at least not in this English - language source, any Portuguese speaking TreeHugger readers care to help out?)

Represented a client in federal jury trial against industrial valve counterfeiters involving the illegal sourcing of valves from Iraq.

A likely source of truly illegal copying would be re-publishing previously published works, e.g. Smith licenses the right to re-print a work from original publisher Jones.

Conversely, acquisition of a borrowed or owned DVD is not illegal, but acquiring material (copying) from the source may be illegal.

Google's Android TV operating system, which is utilized by a variety of third - party manufacturers, is far from illegal and operates as an open - source competitor to the Apple TV, Roku and other set - top box platforms.

This is typically followed by distancing the illegal proceeds from the source of the funds through layers of financial transactions, referred to as layering, and finally by returning the illegally derived proceeds to the criminal from what appears to be a legitimate source, known as integration.

Laundering can be described in three steps — 1) placement — introducing the illegal proceeds into the financial system, 2) layering — putting distance between the proceeds and the source through multiple layers of financial transactions, and 3) integration — returning the proceeds back to the criminal from an apparently legitimate source.

The Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act identify a number of factors that are illegal to use in evaluating a prospective applicant's qualifications: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age (provided the applicant has the legal capacity to contract), source of income derived from public assistance, handicap, familial status (families with dependents under age 18).