Sentences with phrase «of illegal drug trade»

An expertly crafted examination of the illegal drug trade that effortlessly interweaves its many narratives into a searing commentary on the war on drugs, Soderbergh distinguishes each story with a unique color - coded treatment that adds style.

Not exact matches

This digital - currency trading platform provided an online black market for money laundering of illegal drugs, weapons and human trafficking and other nefarious offerings.

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

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.

As discussed here in the Monkey Cage, the state historically had abandoned many of these areas — which evolved into strategic zones for transnational organized crime, especially the illegal drug trade.

As well as being involved in paramilitary conflict, guerrilla groups are often heavily involved in the manufacture and trade of illegal drugs.

WWF conjectures that one - quarter of this trade is illegal (at the time, selling prairie dogs was not illegal), making animal smuggling, after the drug trade, the most lucrative illegal activity in the world.

«Cartel Land» is about the drug trade, not illegal immigration — but as director Matthew Heineman explained in a conversation with TheWrap this week, the two are inextricably linked because of the all - encompassing power of the Mexican drug cartels.

Casting a light on both sides of the border, Cartel Land begins with a chilling, impromptu nighttime desert drug cook with masked men as they talk about the ineffective nature of America's laws to stop or even put a dent in the illegal drug trade.

«Sicario» isn't the first movie to tackle the illegal drug trade along the U.S. - Mexico border, but it's easily one of the best, a relentlessly suspenseful crime thriller that offers a merciless look behind the curtain of the real War on Drugs.

The drug trade and murder of innocent legal or illegal immigrants shines a light on the problems and concerns people in America have had for years and the film does this without you even realizing it.

Unfortunately it also dishes out a portrayal of the less savory part of the music industry, such as illegal drugs, alcohol use, infidelity and corrupt trade practices.

According to the US State Department, slavery is now the third largest type of illegal trade in the world (after drugs and weapons); every year between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across national borders with about 17,500 entering the USA.

Globally, the illegal trade in wildlife is second only to that of drugs.

[36] The town's cult repeatedly participates in illegal acts: ritual human sacrifices whose purpose is the deity's resurrection, [38] illegal drug trade, [39] and kidnapping and confinement of children in a facility to teach them its dogma through brainwashing, while presenting the facility as an orphanage.

For the first time the UN General Assembly has taken up the global illegal wildlife trade as an issue of rule of law, alongside drug trafficking and similar issues.

Until July 2012 Brazilian legislation considered just drug trafficking, terrorism, illegal trade of weapons, kidnapping, corruption, financial crimes and criminal organizations as predicate offenses for the crime of money laundering.

Law Enforcement in Florida spends a great deal of resources on the drug trade (Marijuana, Cocaine, Methamphetamines, Illegal Prescription Medication, Xanax, Narcotics, etc.) and accordingly our firm stands ready to defend all Drug Arrests no matter the allegation, including Drug Possession; Drug Cultivation; Drug Production; Drug Manufacturing; Grow House; Laboratory; Drug Trafficking; Intent to Distribute Drugs, Drug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by Frdrug trade (Marijuana, Cocaine, Methamphetamines, Illegal Prescription Medication, Xanax, Narcotics, etc.) and accordingly our firm stands ready to defend all Drug Arrests no matter the allegation, including Drug Possession; Drug Cultivation; Drug Production; Drug Manufacturing; Grow House; Laboratory; Drug Trafficking; Intent to Distribute Drugs, Drug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by FrDrug Arrests no matter the allegation, including Drug Possession; Drug Cultivation; Drug Production; Drug Manufacturing; Grow House; Laboratory; Drug Trafficking; Intent to Distribute Drugs, Drug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by FrDrug Possession; Drug Cultivation; Drug Production; Drug Manufacturing; Grow House; Laboratory; Drug Trafficking; Intent to Distribute Drugs, Drug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by FrDrug Cultivation; Drug Production; Drug Manufacturing; Grow House; Laboratory; Drug Trafficking; Intent to Distribute Drugs, Drug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by FrDrug Production; Drug Manufacturing; Grow House; Laboratory; Drug Trafficking; Intent to Distribute Drugs, Drug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by FrDrug Manufacturing; Grow House; Laboratory; Drug Trafficking; Intent to Distribute Drugs, Drug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by FrDrug Trafficking; Intent to Distribute Drugs, Drug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by FrDrug Distribution; Intent to Sell Drugs, Drug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by FrDrug Sale or Drug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by FrDrug Purchase; Obtaining Controlled Substance by Fraud.

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.

Also to promote trading of Bitcoin on registered exchanges only and keeping a tab on illegal activities related to it such as Money laundering, Drug trafficking and Terror Funding.

The story of Silk Road's illegal trade didn't even stop after the US Drug Enforcement Agency and Department of Justice shut down the site and seized its digital holdings in 2013.