Sentences with phrase «of illicit trade»

The inaugural meeting of the Illicit Trade APPG will be on 5th September 2017 when officers of the Group will be nominated and chosen.

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.

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 has launched a formal inquiry into the state of illicit trade in...

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

By making informed choices, tourists can help sever the financial arteries that fuel these forms of illicit trade».

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

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.

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.

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Mirror trades were a favored conduit in the first half of this decade, regulators say, but they've been replaced by other mechanisms for moving money, including illicit reinsurance contracts and fraudulent court orders.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

The EU - ABC has established, and continues to develop, a series of Advocacy Groups covering both individual commercial sectors (e.g. Automotive; Insurance; Healthcare; Financial Services) and cross-industry issues (e.g. IPR / Illicit Trade; Human Capital; Customs Procedures & Trade Facilitation).

Widespread adoption of virtual currency is hindered by anti-money laundering and illicit trade concerns, as well as volatility, ease of use obstacles, and a lack of basic trust.

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 spending.

«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.

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.

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

Secrecy hinders criminal investigation and fosters criminality and corruption such as insider trading, market rigging, tax evasion, fraud, embezzlement, bribery, the illicit funding of political parties — and much more.

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.

NACOB wishes to assure the public of its continuous commitment aimed at curbing the illicit drug trade.

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.

But even if such data were available, Siriwat notes that the magnitude of the illicit rosewood trade now vastly overwhelms the resources allocated to stopping it.

The militants spare some artifacts because sales serve as an important source of revenue, according to organizations tracking the illicit antiquities trade.

Science can help measure the scope, scale and impact of illegal wildlife trade, map illicit networks and assess the effect of social marketing and other interventions designed to reduce demand.

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.

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.

There's a Ferris wheel on the cover of my latest thriller Illicit Trade.

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

Pettis: Trade misinvoicing is the preferred method of transferring illicit capital from all regions except the MENA region Dec 22, 2012

The billions of dollars generated through such trade also fund criminal groups who use this money to branch out into other illicit and unethical lines of business.

Other key topics include museum studies, Egyptomania, Ancient Egyptian funerary customs, and the theft and trade of illicit antiquities.

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-...]

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).

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.

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.

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.

The centerpiece is a series of short video advertisements, featuring Harrison Ford, discouraging people from buying pets, curios, medicines or other goods that are part of this $ 10 - billion - a-year illicit trade.

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.

Armed groups finance themselves through the illicit conflict mineral trade and fight over control of mines and taxation points inside Congo.

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».

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.