Sentences with phrase «illicit trade in»

A cross-party group of MPs have announced plans to undertake a formal inquiry into the state of illicit trade in the UK.

A cross-party group of MPs have announced plans to undertake a formal inquiry into the state of illicit trade in...

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Illicit Trade has launched a formal inquiry into the state of illicit trade in the UK.

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.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Illicit Trade has launched a formal inquiry into the state of illicit trade in...

«There's been an uninterrupted upsurge in illicit trade in ivory and rhino horns,» Mr. Milliken said.

«The measures will send a very strong signal to the international community on Hong Kong's determination to curb illicit trade in ivory.»

[Ted Williams has an invaluable piece posted at Yale Environment 360 on the thriving online illicit trade in endangered species and related products.]

I was glad to see Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, even amid so many other pressing foreign - policy challenges, committing the United States to doing more to cut the illicit trade in wildlife and related products.

Particularly significant was the court's finding that the killing was no random incident, but clearly linked to the illicit trade in turtle eggs:

Particularly significant was the court's finding that the killing was no random incident, but clearly linked to the illicit trade in turtle eggs: Read more...

The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.

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.»

EU ministers want «to curb more effectively the illicit trade in cultural goods,» the draft document said.

Not exact matches

This was not your typical drug bust — the breaking up of a meth lab or some seedy way station in the illicit drug trade.

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.

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

In one, Ioffe brings up illicit trade and tax evasion charges made against him:

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.

The «modern technology services» discussed in the report point to cryptocurrencies and their usage to launder money derived from the illicit trade of firearms, drugs, human trafficking, and other organized crime.

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.

Bitcoin, a digital currency that is traded on a peer - to - peer network independent of central control, has engendered a wave of creative criminality - from bitcoin theft by hacking online platforms to potentially using the crypto - currency in money laundering, bribery and buying illicit products.

«Without it, the FDA and their trade enforcement counterparts are severely limited in their ability to combat the flow of illicit and potentially dangerous honey into this country,» Silva told Food Safety News.

In this position, Ignacio looked after spirit drinks and food policy, market access and fiscal discrimination within the EU, environment issues and illicit trade.

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.

«Factors which influence the price of controlled drugs in the illicit trade are complex.

These could come from armed groups such as the ELN, or one of the many right - wing and criminal groups involved in the illicit drug trade and other forms of transnational organised crime that plague the country.

More than 220,000 have been killed in the ensuing conflict which became every time more intertwined with the illicit drug trade, involving not only the FARC, but also other insurgent, paramilitary and criminal groups.

The tobacco industry makes grand gestures in the direction of its competition, and claims that effective public health measures will increase the illicit and counterfeit tobacco trade.

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.

«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.

IFAW argues that in online sales it's impossible to distinguish between legal ivory (antique pieces that predate strict trade treaties on endangered species) and modern, illicit ivory harvested by poachers.

Le Carré's finest novel in years, it is also an intimate portrait of two families: one Russian, the other English; one trading illicit goods, the other laundering the profits; one betrayed by a son - in - law, the other betrayed, and redeemed, by a son.

Pettis:... illicit money out of China totaled US$ 420 billion in 2010... 94 % of the illicit $ $ flows occur through mis - invoiced trade Dec 22, 2012

UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon commended this innovative joint initiative between the two partner UN Agencies: «The illegal trade in goods and services often funds unscrupulous people involved in human trafficking, the illicit ivory trade and other areas that cause immense suffering and destruction.

Rockstar Games has released its latest free expansion for GTA Online, entitled «Import / Export»; check out the launch trailer below and head on over to the official site for a full breakdown of the expansion's content... Expand your criminal empire with a new frontier of illicit profiteering to explore: dominating the city's trade in stolen luxury -LSB-...]

An illicit market even arose in trading quotas — when regulators finally started enforcing the rules — in which one vessel sells its nation's quota to a foreign vessel that had overfished.

There are promising signs, including a set of meetings, described in March by China Daily, between Chinese and American officials pursuing ways to cooperate in stemming the trade in illicit wildlife products, including totoaba swim bladders (which often get to China through the United States).

By facilitating the continued trade of illegal ivory and animal parts, eBay remains a tacit participant in this illicit activity to which thousand of elephants fall victim each year.

That's why it was encouraging to see Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton take an hour today at State Department headquarters to stress the importance of stemming the booming illicit global trade in wildlife.

UN Security Council Resolution 1857, passed on 22 December, extends targeted sanctions to «individuals or entities supporting the illegal armed groups in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo through illicit trade of natural resources».

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.

Finally, we reduce the impact of climate change by campaigning to eliminate powerful refrigerant greenhouse gases, exposing related illicit trade and improving energy efficiency in the cooling sector.

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.

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.

By not sanctioning the timber industry, the UN is basically standing by and allowing the illicit arms trade to continue while the humanitarian disaster in Liberia escalates and Sierra Leone's peace is undermined».

When illegal timber enters the U.S. market, consumers in the United States become unwitting financiers of this illicit trade.

«Loopholes in major trading and manufacturing centres are allowing conflict and illicit diamonds to enter the legitimate diamond market,» said Gooch.