Some of those weapons no doubt moved to Western Europe, where Albanian gangsters are heavily involved in gunrunning. |
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Organized crime is involved in extortion, kidnaping, murder, fixing bids for public works, and gunrunning. |
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Additionally, Spanish customs and tax officials paid several visits to ports and airports as part of their programme of fight against gunrunning. |
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Peruvian investigators are looking into evidence that he might have been involved with gunrunning to Marxist guerrillas in Colombia. |
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These connected crimes include corruption of state officials, forgery, use of fraud to obtain false certificates, blackmail, gunrunning, drug trafficking and money laundering. |
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Two recent and notorious cases, involving gunrunning operations in Africa and the spread of nuclear weapons technology, illustrate the challenges that illicit brokering poses. |
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Friendship with two of the crew, the brothers César and Dominique Cervoni, led him during 1877-78 to become involved in gunrunning along the Spanish coast for the Carlist cause. |
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They are used for coastal protection and operate in concert with the Customs Authority to fight gunrunning, smuggling and other illegal activities. |
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In Cyprus, translators employed by the British during the 1950s told tales of electrocutions and pulled fingernails as British intelligence officers tried to elicit information about gunrunning. |
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Whether protecting the opium trade, engaging in kidnapping, bank robbery, gunrunning, extortion or human trafficking, takfiri groups on both sides of the frontier today behave more like Mafiosi than mujahidin. |
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