Sentences with phrase «smuggling networks»

«The military have left some mine sites in recent months, but CNDP - controlled mineral smuggling networks continue to operate with complete impunity.

The opening and closing scenes of the video take place inside a car (image above) and document the journey that some of the protagonists and I made to the centre of Athens to covertly receive a newly arrived Pakistani family member, who reached the country through smuggling networks after a month in transit.

It also shows that some of the old poaching and smuggling networks can easily be resurrected.

In a 2008 Homeland Security Committee report issued by Rep. Peter King, New York law enforcement officials estimated that cigarette smuggling networks generated $ 200,000 to $ 300,000 weekly and that much of that money is used to «directly or indirectly finance groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and al - Qaida.»

Hence these smuggling networks are killing, torturing, extorting and detaining migrants at will.

By the virtue of their movement they tend to be impoverished, as they have often paid extortionate fees to criminal smuggling networks in order to reach their destination.

The result is a microbial arms - smuggling network with a global reach.

But the most intriguing element is how MI6 worked with Marks to keep an eye on the IRA, which had the smuggling network he needed.

Not exact matches

Officials have previously accused criminal networks of smuggling Venezuelan bolivars across the border to manipulate the black market exchange rate.

Public trust in Facebook has taken several beatings in the past 18 months, and the social networking giant was done no favors by the recent revelation that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica had smuggled millions of users» data out of the site, exploiting a loophole in Facebook's platform.

Guangdong province in southern China, bordering tariff - free Hong Kong and Macau, is commonly regarded as an entry point and dissemination centre for smuggled wines with a network of «cayotes» or parallel traders carrying wines cross border.

Elaborate trade networks have also evolved, with oil being smuggled across borders in plastic jugs and transported by trucks and on donkeys into Iraq and Turkey.

Once they have been safely smuggled out of the network, the attacker can simply reassemble the pieces at their destination.

The technique could provide clues to the mysterious smuggling routes used by international criminal networks.

For some, it was the evacuation to become junior colonists in the East; for others, it was the onset of heavy bombing, the separation of families or learning to keep their parents alive by smuggling food, creating black markets and devising their own escape networks.

Its title corresponds to the geographic distance between Pakistan and Greece, the two locations that constitute the start and end point (even if temporal) of the networks that smuggle economic migrants from the subcontinent into Europe.

Public trust in Facebook has taken several beatings in the past 18 months, and the social networking giant was done no favors by the recent revelation that a political data firm called Cambridge Analytica had smuggled millions of users» data out of the site, exploiting a loophole in Facebook's platform.

Deteriorating economic conditions during the 1970s led to recurrent violence as rival gangs affiliated with the major political parties evolved into powerful organized crime networks involved in international drug smuggling and money laundering.