Sentences with phrase «involves illegal practices»

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China's regulators moved to ban ICO in 2017, saying the practice involved financial scams and other illegal activities.

A campaign against illegal mining by the current NPP government is gaining traction amid fears the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu, who is fronting the anti-illegal mining crusade, will lose steam because of the influential people involved in the practice.

Gailor said it was too early to determine if the state would seek to retry Newton on the two first - degree larceny charges and the two counts of illegal campaign practices, all of which involve Newton's unsuccessful 2012 bid for a state Senate seat representing Bridgeport.

The dogs involved in dogfighting often suffer life - threatening injuries, and due to the illegal and brutal nature of this practice, animals don't receive necessary medical care.

WWF must make membership of the scheme conditional on companies following sustainable, ethical and legal practices and prohibit any company from participating if it continues to destroy natural forest, trade in illegal timber, or is involved in human rights abuses.

According to federal prosecutor Daniel Avelino, many of these companies have a track record of illegal practices: «Almost half of the companies involved in this scam have other law suits pending for environmental crimes or the use of slave labour, amongst other things.»

According to section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada, it is illegal for people to practice polygamy, which is a type of matrimonial or conjugal union involving multiple spouses.

A significant portion of her time in private practice was spent serving as national counsel to the Recording Industry Association of America and their member companies in lawsuits involving the illegal copying and distribution of sound recordings through online file - sharing programs.

The FSC or the SFC may consider a wide array of remedies, including but not limited to filing a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor General, imposing administrative fines, taking corrective measures, issuing warnings, and ordering removal from office for those involved in illegal practices.

In fact, many cruel practices involving online child adoptions are flat - out illegal.

At this point, I am not aware of any jurisdiction attempting to make the practice illegal, but given the increasing intrusion of civil law into matters of psychotherapy (reporting requirements, legal issues involving age of consent and scope of practice, allowance or disallowance of sexual orientation therapies) it may only be a matter of time.