And right now, smuggling immigrants across those borders is a booming business. |
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Tobacco smuggling is the biggest fraud, in terms of revenue, against EU countries, according to the European Commission's anti-fraud office. |
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The province is also the transit route for the smuggling of guns, cigarettes, petrol, stolen cars and forged documents. |
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The officers also foiled a protected animals smuggling attempt to South Korea, South Africa and Japan. |
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He was also accused of killing thousands of elephants for their tusks and smuggling ivory and sandalwood worth millions of dollars. |
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These charges range from weapons smuggling to illegally wiring large sums of money into the United States. |
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It was reported in overseas media that some international tobacco firms have actually been engaged in aiding and abetting cigarette smuggling. |
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Paramilitary bosses were ageing and their members grown rich on cross-border smuggling, robbery and money laundering. |
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Hard times sometimes called for desperate measures, and wherrymen were not averse to a bit of smuggling. |
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His obituary pointed out that he used his post to enrich himself through a web of smuggling and warped business deals. |
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The military has also been widely accused of involvement in arms running, people smuggling, drugs, illegal logging and extortion rackets. |
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Number one, they are raftsmen and have learned to fake sincerity from the time they began smuggling illegal goods across the Poprad river. |
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Most of the smuggling cases detected previously at border control points had involved lorries instead of coaches. |
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Lucian's family had a history of smuggling and trading contraband items when taxes got too high for people's tolerance. |
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The mastermind of a massive smuggling operation to flood Yorkshire with millions of contraband cigarettes has been jailed for four years. |
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Knowing Rory, he probably ran a little contraband on the side, but the authorities often turn a blind eye to small scale smuggling. |
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After a one-day trial in Ho Chi Minh City, an Australian citizen has been sentenced to death by firing squad in Vietnam for drug smuggling. |
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This group, whoever they are, had a lot of time and funding in order to plan the smuggling and detonation of one thousand pounds of plastique. |
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The prosecution told the jury the men ran the intercontinental smuggling operation along strict business lines. |
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In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair has reportedly been warned of a big increase in heroin smuggling by his inter-agency drugs action team. |
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He was insistent that people smuggling was criminal and we couldn't reward that by letting the refugees in. |
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One news story carried reports of American journalists pillaging the art treasures of Iraq and smuggling them home. |
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I think the border is in a shambles of smuggling, pollution, contagious diseases. |
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Among the revelations was the fact that Ibiza's understaffed customs had not made a single arrest for drug smuggling in two years. |
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He believes that the traffickers follow the traditional southern smuggling routes. |
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Suspicion of homicide, unlike people smuggling, is extraditable in both countries now. |
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In the late 1820s, the soldiers were used to supplement excisemen in the suppression of whisky smuggling in the district. |
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No military officials were charged, although reports have stated that military ships were used to transport goods for the smuggling ring. |
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No less alarming was the growing grey economy consistently sustained by well-organised smuggling networks and crime groups. |
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When you mix men with guns and minerals worth a small fortune, inevitably smuggling, violence and general disorder result. |
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But the federal government has moved to toughen its stance on people smuggling even further. |
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They are also actively involved in smuggling and looting high-voltage power cables. |
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Mrs Bennett said the final straw came when she heard pupils were smuggling fun-size chocolate bars into the classroom. |
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People smuggling is a big money industry, and the smugglers are playing for keeps. |
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The fact is if you want to stop the people smuggling business you have to be very, very tough. |
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More than 30 people have been arrested in a UK Border Agency operation aimed at tackling people smuggling. |
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In the ruthless trade of people smuggling they will increasingly pay with their lives. |
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The ambulances are regularly denied passage through security checkpoints, allegedly for fear that they may be smuggling weapons. |
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Other clandestine links operate, smuggling arms and, according to the police, drugs into Northern Ireland. |
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There's a lot of narcotics smuggling that does go on here, as well as human trafficking. |
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It is a hugger-mugger bubbling pot of intrigue, smuggling, poverty, filth and some of the best food in Asia. |
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Up and Down opens with a couple of hoods smuggling a truckload of Indian refugees into the Czech Republic. |
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He will propose a whole package of measures against smuggling and money laundering, which will be coordinated with other government institutions. |
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To strengthen border security and to combat smuggling, Pakistan is setting up more checkpoints along the border. |
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Amnesty International recorded 1,286 executions there between 1980 and 2000 for highway robbery, sodomy, drug smuggling, and sorcery. |
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More of the speakers admit openly that drug smuggling was their one chance at something better. |
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The death penalty is imposed for drug smuggling, and caning is still used as a punishment. |
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The demand for designer dogs has people smuggling hundreds of puppies across the border. |
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The 1990s saw a massive increase in the smuggling of tobacco and cigarettes into the United Kingdom. |
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Armed robberies, fuel and cigarette smuggling, money-laundering and counterfeiting must also end. |
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Strict penalties will be handed out to those involved in the smuggling or illegal collection of birds, he added. |
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Eight of the nine had previously pleaded guilty to being involved in the dealing of smuggling cigarettes. |
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Velchev said they played a role in the smuggling of excise goods such as cigarettes and liquor. |
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Thailand's police are on the alert for an increase in smuggling of diesel oil at sea. |
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In the years after independence, Macedonia launched a clamp-down on cigarette smuggling. |
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He says his only link to the attack is an admission he hired two vans which he believed would be used for cigarette smuggling. |
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To make sure the Merry Men did not get new hardware, he cracked down on smuggling and the black market. |
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So long as there is a demand for the produce, illegal excavations and the smuggling of antiquities will continue. |
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In the border area of Entikong and Tebedu, timber smuggling is increasingly rife and openly practiced. |
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In areas close to the border with the Northern of Ireland, smuggling became a way of life for some. |
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Later, the islands were used as a smuggling stopover for arms in the civil war and for bootleg alcohol during Prohibition. |
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Prisoners are searched going in and out of prison, so smuggling out a whole boiler suit is going to be pretty hard. |
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The inspection is aimed at helping curb smuggling and undervaluation practices and to nab corrupt customs officials. |
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Wildlife smuggling in Nepal is what blood diamonds are to Sierra Leone, or the Ivory Coast. |
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People smuggling is a crime that the international community needs to combat. |
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Large numbers of deserting sailors, furthermore, left to join the merchant marine for large-scale smuggling and trade with the enemy. |
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However, thanks to smuggling, piracy, and trade with the New World, England was able to thwart Napoleon's plan. |
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An east Yorkshire man who jumped bail after being arrested for drug smuggling eight years ago was jailed for six months yesterday. |
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One can only hope that no budding terrorist ever gets caught smuggling explosives onto a plane by storing them in his back passage. |
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Tri said the Army had teamed up with the Navy and Air Force to conduct regular operations against smuggling on Sumatra. |
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He switched on later to the lucrative clandestine trade of felling and smuggling of sandalwood trees. |
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We also showed in our earlier studies that tobacco smuggling defies apparent economic logic. |
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Illegal logging and timber smuggling influenced the policy and caused price rises for wood domestically. |
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The rampant smuggling once again shows how imperative and urgent it is now to bring domestic fuel prices closer to international levels. |
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If he agreed to the job the Doctor had just about given him the green light to take over small countries or start up his own drug smuggling ring. |
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Five Brits have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates under suspicion of involvement in an Internet drug smuggling ring. |
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He also stated that the government was trying to produce a single regulation to curb smuggling across the country. |
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The bouncers accordingly started a five minute long frisk to ensure that they were not smuggling in any bottles of spirits. |
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The government also faces difficulty in financing the conservation of cultural sites and keeping their contents safe from theft and smuggling, he said. |
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The luggage is well-suited for use by drug traffickers smuggling ecstasy. |
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The loads end up in the hands of a Tijuana cartel that specializes in smuggling drugs across the border. |
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The rampant illegal mining and smuggling of minerals out of the country was due to lack of relevant education and sensitisation to the local entrepreneurs. |
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Two sailors, on shore leave, are caught up in a diamond smuggling racket. |
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As well as being able to impose military discipline on members, the organisation can raise millions of pounds through robberies, smuggling, extortion, blackmail. |
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The capital is also the center of a thriving black-market economy that encompasses everything from smuggling to prostitution and drug trafficking. |
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The Gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory. |
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Nestled in the hills are small market towns like Buleda, dominated by Baluch who make a living smuggling diesel and drugs. |
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A far more serious case involved eight former and present cops charged with smuggling guns and bootleg cigarettes. |
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She gets involved in his shady life in Bangkok, where he runs a boxing ring that also serves as a front for drug smuggling. |
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Ex-hippie Billy Hayes was busted for smuggling hash and thrown in a terrifying Turkish prison. |
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The seashore inhabitants gained some recompense by resorting to wrecking, a tradition which lasted well into the 19th cent., and by their own privateering and smuggling. |
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Their seed money came from a smuggling operation that they ran prior to the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from the UK to China. |
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In war and in peace, inevitable, self-perpetuating economies arise around the smuggling of illicit goods. |
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After years of Venezuelans smuggling cheap gas into Colombia for generous profits, Venezuela closes the whole border each night. |
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While there has always been smuggling in the region, the volume now is striking. |
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He used Ipswich as a base for smuggling, and had so much influence over the bailiffs that they arrested and fined a customs searcher who had caught Debenham smuggling. |
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Zambia has been suffering from the scourge of fuel smuggling across borders because of its central location, the Energy Regulations Board has said. |
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Meanwhile a Briton is being questioned in Holland on suspicion of masterminding a multi-million-pound heroin smuggling ring, police said yesterday. |
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Peres said any solution would have to be mediated with Egypt, which has offered to send 750 border guards to the area to prevent weapons smuggling. |
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The popular view is though that these people that have turned up, through people smuggling, are bludging on the good will of Australia and should be sent back home. |
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In the middle of the program, he also started demanding kickbacks on the contracts to add to the stream of unmonitored revenue he was already getting from oil smuggling. |
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Revenue was also busy cracking illegal cigarette and tobacco smuggling. |
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He faces up to 10 years in jail for illegally smuggling arms into India. |
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The first rule never prevented Mississippi State fans from smuggling in cowbells, but home teams now can be penalized if their fans disrupt play with noisemakers. |
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This technique uses one forward squad or fire team occupying a concealed observation post monitoring traffic at either a border crossing point, or a known smuggling route. |
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The encouragement of smuggling was also an offshoot of this co-operation. |
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He said that one of the main measures against the criminal groups, whose sources of income included smuggling, was to place security cameras at border checkpoints. |
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The resultant journey through North Yorkshire's smuggling past to recover a strange artefact with supernatural powers might sound like familiar sword and sorcery territory. |
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The penalties for human trafficking pale in comparison to drug smuggling. |
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Petrov, who was the commander of a flight in which 500 large packages of cigarettes were fictitiously exported to Greece, was charged with smuggling and held in custody. |
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Their familiarity with export licensing and their ability to corrupt officials and hide illicit cargo in legal consignments could all assist nuclear smuggling. |
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First, McConnell openly criticised the Chancellor's decision to force whisky producers to introduce security seals as protection against counterfeits and smuggling. |
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An Army sergeant accused of smuggling CS gas into Britain claimed it was to be used to train recruits against nuclear, biological and chemical attack, a court heard yesterday. |
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Agents countered all such efforts aggressively, hiking through the jungles in search of smuggling trails and cultivating local residents as informers. |
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Yet he and his family claim they have evidence that he was duped into joining a heroin smuggling role which they cannot persuade a Bangkok court to hear. |
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He said that he had bought it for 20 euros to use as a doorstop or ornament, but the authorities said it was marble and accused him of smuggling antiquities. |
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In Henley Road, smuggling in colonial times was a reaction to the heavy taxes and regulations imposed by mercantilist trade policies. |
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The haul is part of a multi-million pound cigarette and fuel smuggling racket involving the Provisional IRA and criminal gangs. |
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Such barriers are typically constructed for border control purposes such as curbing illegal immigration, human trafficking and smuggling. |
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Notably, some definitions define any 'undeclared' trafficking of currency and precious metal as smuggling. |
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Consequently, smuggling, deliberate shipwrecking and attacks on ships were common. |
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In smuggling, concealment can involve concealing the smuggled goods on a person's clothing, luggage or inside a body cavity. |
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Another possible explanation for the wall is the degree of control it would have provided over immigration, smuggling and customs. |
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Almost every officer and man in the Royal Navy must have taken part either in smuggling or in its prevention. |
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Reduction of domestic taxes enables the local producer to supply at a lower cost and bring down the price disparity that encourages smuggling. |
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Their main consideration, however, was the welfare implications of smuggling. |
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Wildlife smuggling results from the demand for exotic species and the lucrative nature of the trade. |
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It is acknowledged that the smuggling of people is a growing global phenomenon. |
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Migrant smuggling and human trafficking are two separate offences and differ in a few central respects. |
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Law 36 provides a legislative cover to criminalize the smuggling or attempting the smuggling of subsidized oil by-products. |
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The girls get up to nothing more naughty than smuggling in ice cream and talking during study hall. |
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Weavers, of Bullas Road, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, pleaded guilty at Warwick Crown Court to one charge of smuggling. |
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People smuggling can be used to rescue a person from oppressive circumstances. |
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Seeking to earn a quick buck on the sly, some travelers from Dubai, have started smuggling gold by air, hidden in a range of electronic goods. |
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Like all best laid plans though, Digger and his best friend Wriggler uncover an apparent animal smuggling syndicate. |
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He started to supplement them by smuggling dagga, and soon found it so profitable that he left the factory altogether. |
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The system of smuggling finished products into the continent undermined French efforts to ruin the British economy by cutting off markets. |
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After 2012, DRI has arrested Afghani nationals for smuggling gold in such huge amount from Delhi airport, officer added. |
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Britain exploited these divisions, blockading only southern ports for much of the war and encouraging smuggling. |
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A smaller number of cases related to smuggling, principally brandy, and to salvage rights for ships wrecked on Scottish shores. |
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Meanwhile, a riot broke out in Boston in June 1768 over the seizure of the sloop Liberty, owned by John Hancock, for alleged smuggling. |
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That trade continued with few interruptions until 1638, when it was prohibited on the ground that the ships were smuggling priests into Japan. |
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If so, her bustiness should be congratulated on foiling the pesky paparazzi by smuggling in Bruce Willis and HomerSimpson. |
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A Canadian official suspected it to be a human smuggling operation possibly organised by Tamil Tiger separatists. |
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As there was no punishment for continuing to sell cotton cloth, smuggling of the popular material became commonplace. |
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Much smuggling occurs when enterprising merchants attempt to supply demand for a good or service that is illegal or heavily taxed. |
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The indigo industry in particular also helped to temporarily unite communities throughout the Kingdom of Guatemala due to the smuggling. |
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In return, Macau Government would cooperate with Hong Kong's smuggling trade in Indian opium and China would profit from imposing customs taxes. |
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Their duties include defending the Bahamas, stopping drug smuggling, illegal immigration and poaching, and providing assistance to mariners. |
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Like Britain, a gradual liberalization of trade laws as part of the free trade movement meant less smuggling. |
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In November 2003, the EIA exposed the shadowy world of this illegal trade when it broke a CFC smuggling operation in Singapore. |
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China white was last seen in Ireland in the 1980s before smuggling routes in South East Asia and Iran were stopped. |
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The decline in international trade resulted in an increase in gold smuggling by Kuwaiti ships to India. |
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That trade continued with few interruptions until 1638, when it was prohibited on the grounds that the ships were smuggling priests into Japan. |
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Opium smuggling provided 15 to 20 percent of the British Empire's revenue and simultaneously caused scarcity of silver in China. |
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Police insisted that the murder was a gangland contract killing connected to the Costa's multi-million-pound drug smuggling industry. |
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Penalties for smuggling heroin or morphine are often harsh in most countries. |
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The draft plans to combat the smuggling of subsidized oil derivates by penalizing offenders. |
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However, the ban on maritime shipping did force countless numbers of people into smuggling and piracy. |
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It is tasked with the broader enforcement of maritime laws, especially against smuggling, illegal fishing, drug trafficking, and piracy. |
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Additionally, CFC smuggling is not considered a significant issue, so the perceived penalties for smuggling are low. |
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Near the beginning of the nineteenth century, various governments acted to ban the trade, although illegal smuggling still occurred. |
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A worldwide end to production should also terminate the smuggling of this material. |
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This is a legally acceptable process and should not be confused with smuggling. |
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Although the known smuggling tunnels have been sealed up, there are still old fish cellars and boat stores to be seen along the coast. |
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The concept of the code is to provide layered and redundant defences against smuggling, terrorism, piracy, stowaways, etc. |
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Seafarers engaged in illegal business long valued this maze of islands as a den of piracy and smuggling. |
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Calais remained an important maritime city and smuggling center throughout the 17th century. |
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A man has been accused of smuggling nearly 40,000 piranhas into New York City. |
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In 1768 violence broke out in Boston over attempts to suppress smuggling and 4000 British troops were sent to occupy the city. |
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Such smuggling has been increasing since the United States, in keeping with an environmental treaty, banned imports and the production of CFCs a year ago. |
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Italy's coast guard said Thursday it rescued overnight 176 immigrants freezing on a small boat and arrested 15 crew on a nearby mothership on human smuggling charges. |
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Some Kuwaiti merchant families became rich from this smuggling. |
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It features a blaster that fires Nerf turbolaser turret, light-up cannons, hyperdrive sound as a playset area which has a holochess smuggling compartment. |
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A MALAYSIAN man admitted wildlife smuggling after his bag bursting with 95 live boa constrictors broke open on a luggage conveyer belt at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. |
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Moving goods, animals, or people illegally across a border, without declaring them or seeking permission, or deliberately evading official inspection, constitutes smuggling. |
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Underdeveloped institutions, porous open borders, and the existence of established smuggling organisations contribute to Ghana's position in the narcotics industry. |
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The European Union and Spain have constructed barriers between Morocco and the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla to prevent illegal immigration and smuggling. |
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In places where smuggling, migration, and infiltration are a problem, many countries fortify borders with fences and barriers, and institute formal border control procedures. |
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Tangier acquired the reputation of a spying and smuggling centre and attracted foreign capital due to political neutrality and commercial liberty at that time. |
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When I was a law student in the early 1980s, I financed a visit to the Soviet Union by smuggling in bluejeans and Walkmans and selling them on the black market. |
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This produced the Canton system of the Thirteen Factories, but also the opium smuggling that led to disastrous wars with Britain and other European powers in the 19th century. |
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The profits involved in smuggling goods appear to be extensive. |
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The law criminalises the smuggling or attempting the smuggling of subsidised oil derivatives, which it considers theft of public money that requires legal punishment. |
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It was a quiet place, visited by few people other than local fishermen with rumours of a thriving smuggling trade, which has now become a key theme of the park. |
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Lymington particularly promotes stories about its smuggling. |
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The criminal activity of smuggling became associated with Jacobitism throughout Britain, partly because of the advantage of dealing through exiled Jacobites in France. |
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In this time period, there was an increase in activity of Caribbean cartels that led to the rise of an alternate route of smuggling through Mexico. |
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There are twenty chines on the Isle of Wight, to which fascinating folklore is attached because of their history with local smuggling, fishing and shipwrecks. |
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Even social scientists have misconstrued smuggling as illegal trade. |
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In popular perception smuggling is synonymous with illegal trade. |
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Avoiding border checks, such as by small ships, private airplanes, through overland smuggling routes, smuggling tunnels and even small submersibles. |
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In the 1990s, when economic sanctions were imposed on Serbia, a large percent of the population lived off smuggling petrol and consumer goods from neighboring countries. |
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A culture of smuggling was present in the city until 1659, when French gains in Flanders from the Treaty of the Pyrenees moved the border northwards. |
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A mALAYSIAn man has admitted wildlife smuggling after his bag filled with 95 live boa constrictors burst open on an airport luggage conveyor belt. |
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Each year, hundreds of thousands of migrants are moved illegally by highly organized international smuggling and trafficking groups, often in dangerous or inhumane conditions. |
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The villages are well known for their smuggling and fishing past. |
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Dubai The narcotics unit of Dubai Police halted the smuggling of four tonnes of the chemical acetic hydride from one Asian country to another via Jebel Ali Port. |
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Drawing attention to the case of cigarettes, Chowdhury suggested that, in Bangladesh, smuggling of cigarettes reduced the level of domestic production. |
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It is possible that smuggling was the town's most significant trade at this time, though cod fishing in Newfoundland was also of great importance. |
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Evasion of customs duty does not necessarily constitute smuggling. |
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The Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance for Novosibirsk region of Russia prevented smuggling of 48 tons of cargo from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. |
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Three nationals held on drug trafficking charges Three nationals were arrested for smuggling Qhat in the wilayat of Thamrait of Dhofar governorate. |
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Nevertheless, many of the willing migrants undertake the hazardous travel to their destination country with criminal syndicates specialized in people smuggling. |
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